Why Is It Important to Make A Last Will and Testament ?

When Aretha Franklin, “Queen of Soul”, passed away last year at the age of 76, she did so without leaving legal instructions for how she’d like her $80 million estate to be dealt with. While it’s impossible to know why the singer didn’t have a Will, it was widely reported that her team of attorneys had repeatedly urged her to create one, but she ‘never got around to it’.

The Daily’s Victor Petrovic found out from Lucy McPherson, Senior Associate with Attwood Marshall Lawyers, that it’s not an uncommon mistake.