There are few parts of the law quite as fraught as succession. As the great wealth transfer gets under way, wrangling about who gets what is tearing families apart
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It wasn’t until Charlotte’s* father died that she learnt he had changed his will to leave his entire estate to one of her three siblings.
“This is crazy,” she remembers thinking in the days afterwards. “Why wouldn’t we get anything? This just makes no sense.”