Your Will Alone Won’t Guarantee Your Money Goes to Your Heirs

When Dr. James Rocconi’s third wife left him, he rushed to update his will and other estate-planning documents to ensure she would get nothing when he died. But since the handwritten change he faxed to his insurance company wasn’t accepted, his three children from his first marriage ended up in a six-year legal fight with her over the benefits after he died in 2017.