Prince's siblings already fighting barely a week after his death

[SheilaT]

21. Most people don't have wills.

And almost everyone should have one.

I'm pestering a friend of mine to make one, and she's just having a lot of trouble getting around to it. In her case it would be extremely simple. She owns her home, although there's a mortgage, and the usual personal property without a large amount of value. She has only one son, so there would be no heirs fighting over a distribution of things.

A couple of years ago my brother-in-law died suddenly with no will. It was a second marriage for both him and my sister, so it was even more astonishing to me that they'd not gotten around to drawing up wills in the thirteen years they were married. Since then, that sister has made a will, which is very good.

I updated mine recently, since I now live in a different state from the one the original one was made.

You don't have to have a lot of money, nor a lot of potential heirs to need a will.

For someone like Prince not to have one, not to have had good trust documents in place, is almost criminal.