Who Wins? Shortest Will and More.

Who Wins? Shortest Will and More.

Viken Mikaelian, CEO Viken Mikaelian, CEO

Viken Mikaelian, CEO

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发布日期: 2023年8月16日
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Amusing Stats:?

  • Shortest will: “All to son.”?
  • Second-shortest will: “All to wife.” (January of 1967, Herr Karl Hausch)
  • Largest inheritance to a pet: $80 million (1992, Carlotta Leibenstein, to her German Shepherd)
  • Oldest Power of Attorney: 561 BC, Mesopotamia
  • Longest will: 1066 pages (Frederica Evelyn Stilwell Cook, British)
  • Famous people who died without a will:?Abraham Lincoln, Picasso, Martin Luther King and 27 others .

OK, now for more serious facts and stats you can actually use .

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