It’s a contrast to the instructions spelled out in Brown’s will and trust filed less than a month after his death on Christmas Day 2006, but lawyers said they’re done fighting over what many say is very little remaining cash.
Evidently, going into court and raising enough hell is one method for obtaining an asset distribution. That at least seems the case with the late James Brown’s family. So much for proper estate planning as a mechanism to dictate the orderly disposition of assets.
While undue influence and document doctoring are more cost effective ways in which to divert an individual’s assets away from intended heirs/beneficiaries, extended, expensive litigation is certainly another tactic coming into more common use.
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