Despite their disfavor among estate planners, holographic wills — entirely handwritten by the testator, normally without the aid of a legal "expert" — keep popping up in the news, especially with ...

Wills can be a mess. They’re often used as the driving force for drama in movies and tv shows, but they can be problems in real life too. Relatives can fight over them and they can tear families apart ...

Earlier this month, a Michigan jury considered whether handwriting in a spiral notebook found under a couch cushion at singer Aretha Franklin’s home constituted her valid last will. Franklin had ...

(The Conversation) – A handwritten will in a spiral notebook found wedged between couch cushions months after Aretha Franklin’s 2018 death is valid, a jury in Pontiac, Michigan, has decided. The July ...

The discovery of handwritten wills in the home of the late Aretha Franklin could ignite a dispute among family members about the estate of the "Queen of Soul." She died last August without a formal ...

During a two-day trial last summer, a Michigan jury concluded that a handwritten note penned by Aretha Franklin in 2014, found in a drawing book beneath sofa cushions in her home, holds legal validity ...