When Aretha Franklin—the Queen of Soul—died in 2018, it was widely reported that the singer had no will. Don Wilson, a Los Angeles lawyer who worked for Franklin for nearly 30 years, told The Guardian ...

A handwritten or scribbled will signed by the testator is technically known as a holographic will, and many people try to prepare their own wills in an attempt to be frugal. However, are holographic ...

During a two-day trial last summer, a Michigan jury concluded that a handwritten note penned by Aretha Franklin in 2014, found in a drawing book beneath sofa cushions in her home, holds legal validity ...

The family dispute over Aretha Franklin’s will has finally been put to rest. After a two-day trial and less than an hour of deliberation, a Michigan jury found that a handwritten document found in ...

A handwritten will found under the cushions of Aretha Franklin’s couch has been declared valid by a Michigan jury. The “Queen of Soul” died in 2018 at the age of 76. The six-person jury in Oakland ...

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A document handwritten by singer Aretha Franklin and found in her couch after her 2018 death is a valid Michigan will, a jury said Tuesday, a critical turn in a dispute that has ...

stockbusters / Getty Images Prepare to be confused. Everyone else was. On Feb. 20, 1963, Carl Chambers signed his handwritten will. This type of will is known as a holographic will and is valid in ...

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