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When a person dies there are laws covering how their property is passed on to relatives. The growing use of social media has made some issues of inheritance more confusing. Companies like Google and Facebook contend laws approved decades ago that prevent them from releasing electronic memories unless…

Russell Moore and his wife adopted two sons from Russia and when the legal process was finally over and they went to pick them up from the orphanage the transition proved to be harder than they had expected. Their new sons had never been outside. They had never even ridden in a car. As they pulled away…

It just looked like a mutt wandering the streets. Further research found that it was a rare South African Mastiff stolen from his yard in Beaverdam, Virginia. What looked like a lonely mutt was actually a pure bred dog worth over $10,000. His owner was ecstatic to get him back. —Jim L. Wilson and Rodger…

Diane Van Deren was committed. Every evening she said good night to her husband and kids and left her home to run. She ran toward the mountains of the Pike National Forest while towing a 50-pound sandbag on a sled. She ran for 10-12 hours. Diane Van Deren was training to run the Yukon Artic Ultra, a…

While record rainfall totals fell in the midsection of the United States in May 2015, other parts of the country were dry. Overall, of the 1,445 months since weather records began in January 1895, May was the single wettest month across the country. 20 states reported wetter than average weather. It…

In 1931, a young mother died suddenly. Her two children, ages seven and four, were sent to separate homes and raised apart. After 80 years, Doris Petre discovered that her older brother was alive and well, living in Brunswick, Maine. 80 years after the separation, Doris and Richard Watrous met each other…

A private investigator finally managed to track down a homeless Utah man to tell him that he has inherited a lot of money. David Lundberg said he located Max Melitzer pushing a shopping cart full of his personal possessions. Melitzer stands to receive a large sum of money from his brother’s estate, and…

In a 60 minutes interview on CBS, Walter Isaacson, the author of the biography Steve Jobs, shares this early event in Jobs’ life as related by Jobs. “I was, I remember right here on the lawn, telling Lisa McMoylar from across the street that I was adopted. And she said, ‘So does that mean your real parents…

Wellington R. Burt hated his family. When he died, in 1919, his will stipulated that his estate was to be held until his last grandchild was dead for 21 years. That child died in 1990 so in 2011 the descendants of Wellington R. Burt opened the will. The 12 descendants learned that they would split an…

In India, on the same day, 285 girls named Nakusa changed their names. Nakusa is the Hindi word for unwanted. Some girls wound up with the unfortunate name because their parents had wanted boys, in part because of the expense of marrying off female offspring. The spiteful practice leads to further discrimination…

ADOPTION A lonely Italian man who had lived alone with seven cats since his passed away 12 years ago has been adopted. 80 year-old Giorgio Angelozzi advertised in the classifieds seeking someone to "adopt" him as a grandfather. The paper decided to place the man's plight on the front page, and he was…

Two Hungarian brothers who were so poor they lived in a cave, and raised money selling junk, recently discovered they are heirs to a huge fortune. Charity workers informed Zsolt and Geza Peladi that they and a sister were in line to receive an inheritance worth more than six billion dollars. German law…

Inheritance – on an advanced test a student was asked: A multi-billionaire with assets equaling $250,127,653,702.32 died and left one-tenth of his money to his ex-wife, one-tenth each of his two kids, two-tenth to his trusted butler, and the rest to charity. How much money did the ex-wife get? The student…

Inheritance In his book,Winning Attitudes, John Maxwell writes, "From my earliest recollections I do not remember a compliment or affirmation from my father. His father also had thought it unmanly to express affection or even appreciation. My grandfather was a perfectionist who worked hard and expected…

“The Spirit and the Bride say, Come; let him that heareth say, Come.” Here I cannot resist airing an illustration. I have heard, that in the deserts, when the caravans are in want of water, and they are afraid they shall not find any, they are accustomed to send on a camel, with its rider, some distance…