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A will reflects the testator’s wishes at the moment it was signed, but it cannot always anticipate what will actually work best for the people left behind. A testator might leave the family home and a share portfolio to two different children in roughly equal value, only for one child to have no interest in...
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South African families look different today than they did a generation ago. Second marriages, stepchildren, half-siblings and children from more than one relationship are now the norm rather than the exception. Yet most wills in South Africa are still drafted as if every family consists of one marriage and one set of children. That mismatch...
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