I take some comfort in the fact that I didn’t lose anything I wasn’t happy to be rid of. My relatives are generally shitty people (the story above is only the tip of the iceberg) and getting cut out of their lives is just fine by me. It’s just messed up.

My family is experiencing very similar drama and I’m expecting more. I just helped my aunt do her will. She’s not rich in the least but she has a house (most people’s biggest asset here) and lots of jewellery. I know half the house and all the jewellery is going to me because I’m her favourite. I expect nothing less…

All of this. Also, TALK to your parents. My brother and I had a conversation with them (it wasn’t a discussion we wanted to have, but necessary) and we both have copies of their will/trust.  My brother and I are thick as thieves, but we talked about it privately then discussed with our parents (with no kids or spouses…

Between this and paying for her child rapist brother’s lawyer, maybe it’s time y’all confronted the possibility that she’s a piece of shit

I’d also add that if you want to see things done the way you envisioned, maybe don’t do a revokable living trust. They are, as it turns out revokable. It’s right there in the title.

FYI fuck Twitter so much for letting so many far-right bigots use their platform, but I just got in trouble for something (they won’t tell me what) and can’t tweet for 12 hours. Meanwhile open hate groups have accounts despite their very existence and raison d’etre violating the rules, including VDare. 

This is so important. My father has dementia and we managed to get him a will juuust before he was unable to really make those decisions anymore. It’s a straightforward 4 way split between four kids, so there’s little likelihood of drama. That said, the relationship between my sisters and my brother and I has soured…

I didn’t know that white nationalists could get the quantities of cocaine required for a Kudlow party. I thought they were strictly speedfreaks.

Is there any chance your husband’s grandmother’s will was drawn up by a professional, with a copy preserved in someone’s office files (so no one has to search the house)?

I second this, and add that if you’re going to cut someone out or give someone more than others, make your reasoning clear. There are relatives who no longer speak to my family because an aunt willed her estate to my siblings and me. This aunt had been like a third parent to us; she helped raise us. She didn’t have…

Seriously. If you have any assets at all, HAVE A WILL. This shouldn’t be difficult.

My family is almost entirely drama free but I second you on everybody needs a will. Because it is either simple to settle or it isn’t, and putting it off does not make it any easier. My great grandparents died without a will, in the sixties. Their 6 children inherited their farm and other assets and then just never…

Also, I’m really curious what she saw in this dude that made her think, “There’s someone I want to go to bat for!” Just looking at him makes me want to shower. 

This is not meant to be shade on Aretha, since it seems like things will default to how I hope she would have wanted it, so she didn’t see a need for formalize it, but please please please people: have a will and make sure it is in safe hands!

I can wholeheartedly say that I have never liked Nicki. She always seemed disingenuous. And her music was always lacking. I grew up with strong female rappers - there weren’t a lot, but the ones that were there were some BAD bitches. And I mean that in the most positive way. Lil Kim, Foxy, Remy, Trina. (I was a kid of…

Likewise. They make me rage so hard, being that wealthy and useless and fucking obnoxious while decent, hard-working, honest people are living in poverty. Sometimes I wish I could leave the planet.

I think it’s time to dip out of anymore articles about either of these assholes. That’s my current stance on the Kardashians.

I don’t want anyone to think for a second that I would not have asked him to come on my stage.

Oh god, that photo physically makes me sick. Fuck her. You can have that lil’ bitch. 

Not often you get to say good job MTV.