My Mother in Law Tried to Take Everything After My Husband Died So I Signed the Papers

and far away. We had joked about it once, signing a stack of paperwork at the kitchen table, Joel flexing an arm and announcing he was a peak physical specimen and essentially paying the insurance company to bet he wouldn’t die.

The policy was for $875,000.

And sometime in the previous eight months, Joel had updated the beneficiary designation form. continue reading …