Moravec Varga & Mooney

The untimely passing of music superstar Prince was a shock to everyone who grew up with his music. As an estate planning attorney, one of the first assumptions many people made was that Prince must have had extensive estate planning in place. He was surrounded by attorneys, business advisers, and money managers. He owned valuable copyrights to his music, had a highly valuable public brand and name, and had an estate large enough to raise serious estate tax questions. Accordin

We have had two cases in the last couple of years where one of the attorneys from our office had to spend days sitting with the disputing relatives in estate cases while they took turns going through personal property and the effects of their relative. Not only was this emotional for the parties, but costly from a legal fee standpoint. The parties required it since, without counsel present, it could not be accomplished for a variety of reasons. A recent New York Times artic