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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
That's the joy of universal succession, isn't it? It wouldn't matter. Details depend on your jurisdiction, obviously, but if you're married and/or have kids (and made no will to the contrary) the law makes them your heir.
If you're not married, however, the task of naming one (an heir, that is) falls on you. Simply having lived together with someone for some time, especially in countries where common law marriages don't exist, is not sufficient.
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Yes. I know that.
Larsson knew it. He was neither stupid nor careless. He and his girlfriend (of 30 years) had equitably owned their belongings and they had an "improperly witnessed" will, with the risk of losing a few possessions to his family -- not usually a big deal. They
didn't know he was going to be a famous and very rich man once he was dead.
If they weren't married because the marriage license as a public document would have allowed Neo-Nazis to learn their home address, then it stands to reason that they wouldn't have an impregnable will for the same reason. Apparently he DID have a will, but his family went to court and had it broken.
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Initially it appears that Gabrielsson had no idea just how contentious the battle over the author’s hugely valuable estate would be — Larsson did not make a properly witnessed will, apparently because it would have required putting their address on record — and that Larsson’s father and brother would inherit it.
So incendiary is the dispute now that there have even been moves to change Sweden’s inheritance laws.
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http://entertainment.timesonline.co....cle7113874.ece
Also, we're trying to solve the problem of a dead guy when I only brought the example to point out that this privacy issue is bigger than Google.
