Dear Liz: I understand what happens with a living trust when both spouses die at once. But what happens when just one dies? Is the trust tossed out, since the surviving spouse is usually the trustee?

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I was talking to some friends the other day about wills and trusts. They seemed to have a variety of opinions, so can you straighten things out for me? I don’t have a will or a trust, and my financial ...

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Other states, like California, enforce such clauses against only certain types of contests, and still other states, including Indiana and Florida, will not enforce such clauses at all. New York is ...