6 Celebrity Estate Planning Errors — and Tips
An official U.S. News & World Report reprint (December 6, 2011), built on lessons from Russell J. Fishkind’s book Probate Wars of the Rich and Famous.
The article
In this U.S. News & World Report piece (reprinted from December 6, 2011), estate lawyer Russell J. Fishkind — drawing on his then-new book Probate Wars of the Rich and Famous — walks through six estate-planning mistakes celebrities make, from Michael Jackson’s guardianship gamble to Anna Nicole Smith’s never-updated plan, and the lessons each holds for the rest of us. “Families turning their backs on each other and the value of the estate being diminished by legal fees — that is not just stuff that happens to celebrities,” Fishkind tells the magazine. The official reprint is reproduced below.
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