A common line: it’s my money, and with or without a will it ends up with my family anyway.
It does not work that way. If you do not set out your intentions, the law sets them out for you, and what the law decides can look nothing like what you had in mind. The people you think of as family and the people the law recognises as heirs are not always the same group.
In this piece, lawyer Chantal clears up the misconception in about forty seconds. The video is in Chinese.
Originally published on Guaranti’s YouTube channel.