estate
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A reader wrote to this column asking whether his siblings should be left more in his parents’ estate as they were less well off.
From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026
“The estate bears the name Shoemaker originally gave his villa, ‘Cedar Cliff’—a designation that eventually defined the very road on which it stands.”
From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026
Vince Wilburn Jr., nephew and drummer, who now co-manages Davis’ estate: He liked to catch things, that’s why the tape kept continuously rolling, because he said it was songs inside of songs.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026
But Alex’s trial ended up being held in Colleton because the bodies of his wife, Maggie, and younger son, Paul, were found in a portion of the vast family estate just across the county line.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026
The lot where Fischer was buried belongs to the family of Gardar Sverisson, a close friend of Miyoko Watai, one of the claimants to the estate of Bobby.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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