Inheritance Disputes Quotes

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

J. Paul Getty, who still hasn't been buried - they keep finding oil! Never got a dinner!

The reason that stepmothers are often the bad guy in fairy tales is because people died in childbirth, all the time, so fathers remarried and there would be a struggle between the children and the new wife, in terms of who would inherit what.

When vastly wealthy people say, 'I'm not leaving my kids any money,' it's typically not true.

With inheritances, it's really important not to give the impression that you're extorting your children, and one way you can not do that is to make it clear to them that you're not leaving the whole of your estate to them at all, but to various charitable organizations.

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and bequeath.

Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance.

What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!