John Grisham’s New Book Has An Estate Planning Twist

John Grisham recently released a new historical novel”Sycamore Row”  with an interesting estate planning twist. The novel is about the suicide ofa rich man, Henry Hubbard. Hubbard left a will naming his children asbeneficiaries. However, on the date of his suicide he supposedly changedhis mind and sent his attorney Jake Brigance a holographic will, whichreplaced the old one. The new will left his entire estate to Hubbard’s house cleaner,Lettie Lang. Additionally, Hubbard warns Brigance in the note, “These are notnice people and they will fight, so get ready, fight them, Mr. Brigance, to thebitter end.”

See Janet Maslin, More Vexing Challenges For That Mississippi Lawyer, The New York Times,  Oct. 30, 2013.