
My favorite hobby is reading and I try to combine my love of reading with my profession of estate planning. The plots of some of my favorite books are about dysfunctional family relationships complicated by really bad estate planning!
Here are three books I recommend where siblings were torn apart by their parents’ bad estate planning choices.
The Nest
by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
The four siblings of the Plumb family - Leo, Melody, Beatrice, and Jack- are the beneficiaries of a trust fund they call “The Nest” left to them by their father. The terms of the trust provide that the trust assets will be distributed equally to the four siblings when the youngest, Melody, reaches age 40.
When the book begins, Melody is fast-approaching her 40th birthday, and each of the siblings is anxiously awaiting the distribution that could solve their self-inflicted life problems.
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