Hence all the Golden Age mysteries about will construction.
. . . which is partly why I found Trusts & Estates so fun in law school, actually. The prof would write family trees up on the board and then vehemently X people out who'd died, very dramatic.
(To my pleasant surprise, I've developed a very minor specialty in it, because the New York State Attorney General's Office is the statutory representative of ultimate charitable beneficiaries of wills and trusts, so sometimes we appear in will contests, trust modifications, etc. I definitely wouldn't want to do it all the time, even if I could, because of the intensity of belief you mention, but I find it a nice change of pace.)
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. . . which is partly why I found Trusts & Estates so fun in law school, actually. The prof would write family trees up on the board and then vehemently X people out who'd died, very dramatic.
(To my pleasant surprise, I've developed a very minor specialty in it, because the New York State Attorney General's Office is the statutory representative of ultimate charitable beneficiaries of wills and trusts, so sometimes we appear in will contests, trust modifications, etc. I definitely wouldn't want to do it all the time, even if I could, because of the intensity of belief you mention, but I find it a nice change of pace.)