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Personal Finance and Investing

PoindexterOglethorpe

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4. Yes. Updating beneficiaries is crucial.

Reply to A HERETIC I AM (Reply #3)

Thu Jun 10, 2021, 12:14 PM

Jun 2021

I get furious at people who blow off making a will, saying, "Why should I care? I'll be gone anyway." They should have to handle the affairs of someone who dies intestate just to see why they should care.

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