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Joan Rivers Leaves $100 Million Inheritance to Daughter Melissa Rivers

Uncategorized Nov 16, 2015
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Joan Rivers recently passed and rumors have abounded about her daughter   Melissa inheriting an estate valued at about $100 million. Do you know what to do with a large Palm Beach inheritance? What about when its mostly physical property and not accounts and portfolios?

Estate and Wealth Management

  • Bulk inheritance is becoming less and less common with many experts noting that living inheritances are becoming more and more popular.
  • In this case an adult parent would support a child throughout their life with inheritance property slowly rather than dumping it all at death.
  • Do you know why?
  • Also trusts have become more and more common to replace standard transfers ofprobate property.
  • A trust contrary to common belief can be made to transfer the property free of trust after a donor’s death without much issue.
  • What happens when you inherit a bulk of physical property like Melissa Rivers did when her mother passed away?
  • Have you considered auctioning off the items?
  • Check out what the personal representative of Joan River’s estate has done.

The Estate of Joan Rivers

  • This is not to say that there was no real estate, Joan left an Upper East Side Apartment that is currently listed for sale at $28 million.
  • A once crumbling ballroom, the space was restored by Rivers and adorned with Louis XVI furniture.
  • Joan also left a bulk of personal items in her apartment and Connecticut estate that have to be auctioned off.
  • Christie’s auction house is rumored to be putting a ton of River’s personal goods up for auction and it would not be the first time either.
  • Do you know where your physical items are going, or do you plan on liquidating them through auction?
  • Palm Beach probate litigators know that planning for one or two pieces of real estate is easy but that sometimes the bulk of a person’s estate are physical heirlooms of great importance.
  • Joan River’s estate was estimated at $100 Million but her daughter denies that amount adamantly.