Cut Out Of The Will

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

These things always seem to happen to rich people only...You don't hear about people with dick for assets doing this sort of thing...b/c there is nothing to begin with. Fitzgerald was right , "The rich are different from us."

I'm curious why the daughter in this story decided not to contest it and whether the brothers agreed with the father's wishes or not.

John Steinbeck's heirs fought for decades with his widow over the rights to his books. It was still going on as of just a year or so ago, I think (now with her estate as she died years ago).