90-Year-Old Man Challenges Plan to Leave Summer Cottage Only to Wife's 3 Children
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Updated · NJ.com · Jun 1
90-Year-Old Man Challenges Plan to Leave Summer Cottage Only to Wife's 3 Children
2 articles · Updated · NJ.com · Jun 1
Summary
A 90-year-old father learned during will revisions that his 85-year-old wife wants the family summer cottage to stay solely in her name and pass only to her three children.
The dispute centers on a 33-year marriage in which his retirement account funded much of the couple's living costs, while he also lived in and helped maintain the cottage as its value climbed.
The couple also own a winter home together, and the family says the wife still wants her share of that property, deepening his sense that the estate plan is uneven.
Dear Annie said such inheritance fights are common in second and third marriages and urged the father to hire his own estate attorney to review ownership, marital rights and possible protections.