If your clients have some strange requests when it comes to their last wishes spare a thought for the Will writers instructions by these testators: S. Sanborn – Sanborn, a 19th-century New England hatter, left a rather macabre bequest to a friend — a pair of drums made from Sanborn’s skin. The friend received further instructions to go to Bunker Hill each June 17th and play “Yankee... 

A lady died this past January, and ANZ bank billed her for February and March for their annual service charges on her credit card, and then added late fees and interest on the monthly charge. The balance had been $0.00, now is somewhere around $60.00. A family member placed a call to the ANZ Bank: Family Member: ‘I am calling to tell you that she died in January.’ ANZ: ‘The account... 

When genealogists and probate researchers located an Italian man with a view to passing on his inheritance he was adamant that he should only be contacted using a PO Box address. When this was questioned he claimed that his daughter would kill him for the money. Despite making all parties aware of this the US court dealing with the estate wrote to his home address. His daughter, on discovering the...