Aretha Franklin's handwritten wills might not pass muster in some states. But experts say a court in Michigan, where she died, is more likely to take them seriously.
this month may not be easy to decipher. The combined 16 pages are handwritten, filled with scratched-out phrases, notes in the margins and occasional digressions.
That's because Michigan — like roughly half the states — allows for a"holographic" or handwritten will if it is dated and signed and as long as its"material portions are in the testator's handwriting," perThe wills are, in fact, dated — one from March 2014, two from 2010 — and each page appears to be signed, according to Leigh-Alexandra Basha, an estate and tax planning lawyer at the firm McDermott Will & Emery in Washington, who reviewed the scanned copies...
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