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Nine Ways Your Estate Plan Could Breed Conflict

October 1, 2025

Estate plans are supposed to prevent conflict. Done poorly, they cause it. Below are nine of the most common mistakes we see — the kind that pit siblings against stepparents, freeze real estate for years, or send an entire family into Orphans' Court.

Every one of them is fixable in advance, and most are cheap to fix. Once you're gone, none of them are.

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