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Handing wealth to the next generation sounds simple. Write a will, divide things up, sign, and you are done. In practice, that is how families end up in court, siblings stop speaking, and children lose benefits or pay avoidable taxes. I have sat across the table from adult children who said, more than once, “I wish my parents had talked to someone before doing this.” They were not angry at the inheritance itself. They were angry at the fallout: frozen accounts, Medicaid