Will Of Mother Of Former D.C. Mayor Goes To Court

    Tony Williams was mayor of Washington D.C. for two terms and his mother was always by his side as a fixture of the Washington social circuit. When she died, many grieved and she left a modest estate to her 8 children and a handful of charities. Now some of her children have gone to court claiming that personal items of their mother were wrongly taken by other family members after death.

    The dispute appears to center on the name of one sibling being left out of the will, though indirectly referred to in the rest of the document, and that specific items were taken without the estate setting a process to fairly divide the possessions. This case goes to show that making a will is not the only step one must take to dispose of assets after death. Careful thought must go into making sure each beneficiary won’t make feel aggrieved enough to challenge the probate and safe guards put into place to prevent anyone from wanting to go to court.

See Keith L. Alexander, Family of Former Mayor Tony Williams in Probate Court Over Mother’s Will, Washington Post, May 17, 2015.