When Aretha Franklin died last year, her family said that she had left no will. But, as it turns out, she may have left a few of them. The scrawled papers, which are dated between 2010 and 2014, are at times barely legible, with cross-outs, marginal notes and some salty tangents. Image A page from one of the handwritten documents found in Aretha Franklin’s home. The unexpected surfacing of the documents has raised a whole new set of questions, not only about Ms. Franklin’s intentions, but about the validity of wills that are unwitnessed and roughly drafted.

Source: New York Times May 21, 2019 23:59 UTC