Eight Dollar Dish or Dividing China Sets in Probate.

Back to my lawyerly joke a day a calendar -- the page for February 14, 2006, was a quote from Harry Burns in the movie When Harry Met Sally:

Right now everything is great, everyone is happy, everyone is in love, and that is wonderful! But you gotta know that sooner or later you're gonna be screaming at each other about who's gonna get this dish. This eight-dollar dish will cost you a thousand dollars in phone calls to the legal firm of That's Mine, This Is Yours.

Reading this again as I tore off the page for today's date reminded me of my probate matter involving siblings who cannot agree on who is getting Mom's china.

Turns out that Mom had two complete sets of china. One feuding sibling has half of the first set and the other feuding sibling has the other half. As for the second set, again the same feuding sibling has half of the set and the other feuding sibling has the other half.

Neither has a complete set and they both have half of both sets. Crazy, crazy, crazy.

Confidential to Moms: take note, this could happen to your children upon your demise. Put it in your Will which loving child of yours is to get which china set.

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