Death and taxes: Difficult discussions can help avoid messy family fights
Death and taxes: Difficult discussions can help avoid messy family fights
Benjamin Franklin said “… in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
I would add “and the reluctance to talk about either.”
Parents are often wary of talking about their money with their adult children, and children often don’t want to discuss a parent’s death, no matter how far off or imminent that death might be. This can result in conflict in the end stages of a…