One of life’s quirkier ironies is that many well-off people often end up causing fights among their relatives because they are terrible at managing their own affairs, especially in their old age.
Take a local retired high-flying lawyer in his 80s who failed to make plans for himself even though he spent his entire career helping others do so.
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