The Glassell estate trial, Houston’s latest high profile probate dispute, once more illustrates that a clearly stated will in no way guarantees avoidance of future legal conflicts.  At issue is distribution of the half-billion-dollar estate that belonged to oil pioneer and cultural philanthropist Alfred C. Glassell Jr.  Per the Houston Chronicle, his daughter, Curry Glassell, “is contesting his most recent of nine wills, claiming lawyers coerced him into shrinking her share of the estate and bequeathing it to charity.”

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