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| 17 May, 2021, 11:09 AM IST | E-Paper
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    As mortality grips lives, more people are now willing to make a will

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    Leading legal firms and lawyers are seeing a sharp rise in consultation on writing/revisiting wills and estate planning. Not only mortality, but business losses and market meltdown are pushing the wealthy to make sure that their near and dear ones are taken care off.

    Dorothy Sayers, a prolific writer through the golden age of English crime fiction, had famously said that wills brought the worst out of human nature. “People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words ‘I devise and bequeath’….”, she wrote. Still, the utility of wills, or inheritance distribution, can’t be overstated as we negotiate the worst
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