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When bequests burden rather than benefit loved ones
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You should never view your will as a tool to dictate your final instructions to your family or friends.
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Imagine leaving behind a will that not only does not benefit any relatives, but instead creates unnecessary and unreasonable hardship for them.
The will had been written by an elderly woman who left a $4 million condominium unit, but she stipulated that the apartment could not be sold for three years even though she had a mounting debt of over $250,000.
