About The Book

In this book, experienced Wills and Estates lawyers, Barry Fish and Les Kotzer, provide insight and strategies to help you plan to avoid inheritance disputes using a plain language, “tell it like it is” approach.

The Family Fight… Planning to avoid it

• Provides strategies and suggestions to avoid inheritance disputes and help keep your family united
• Explains complex legal terms in plain language
• Can help open a line of communication between parents and adult children
• Helps organize your affairs so that you don’t leave a mess for your family
• Presents real life family fight stories…and much more

It shows you…

• How one or two words in a will can tear apart a close family
• How to deal with your personal items
• What it really means to own something in joint ownership (why you can’t leave your joint bank account to someone in your Will)
• What you should not assume when planning your affairs, for example:
  1. Don’t assume good will between your children
  2. Don’t assume that equality in a will is always fair
  3. Don’t assume your second spouse will protect your children from your first marriage
  4. And much more

The Family Fight… Planning to avoid it, has been featured in the L.A. Times, Boston Herald, Time Magazine, The Ottawa Citizen, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The National Post, The Toronto Star, The Associated Press and others.

The authors, Barry Fish and Les Kotzer are frequent guests on TV and Radio across North America, appearing on CNN, Fox, CityTV, Zoomer Radio, National Public Radio and many other programs.