It is often said in Minnesota that a family's conflicts over inheritance lie under the surface, but one family's intergenerational business battle is truly subterranean. The heirs of the family that owns one of the most-visited underground caves in the nation has been...
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Month: March 2013
A great battle begins for the estate of Middle-Earth
The author J.R.R. Tolkien was famous for writing "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings," epic fantasy stories about a major battle over who has the rights to old treasures like a gold ring and a broken sword. But the success of Tolkien's novels and the movies based...
Woman inherits fortune in gold coins left in cousin’s garage
When a person dies without a valid will, the state figures out how to distribute the person's estate based on what's called the law of intestate succession. Minnesota, like every other state, has a law that decides whom the heirs of the estate will be in these cases....
Court battle over James Brown’s will rages on
Minnesota music fans may have been following the battle surrounding singer James Brown's estate. A recent court ruling means that the saga is far from over. James Brown was one of the greatest figures in American music, but he never forgot that he was born into abject...