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Starting With the Obituary

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As an estates law clerk, when I begin work on a new estate administration file, one of the first things I do is read the deceased’s obituary. It isn’t a legal document like the Will, but it often provides valuable background information about the deceased and helpful context about family members.[1] It feels respectful to acknowledge the person behind the file before shifting focus to the legal documents and formal….

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Estate Administration, Funeral Planning, Grief

Can You Preserve Your Tattoos After Your Death?

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Introduction Last year, I wrote a blog post about estate planning for tattoo artists, which focused primarily on the intellectual property rights of tattoo artists in their tattoo designs and the ways in which such rights conflict with the rights of the people who actually bear such designs on their skin.[1] In response to my post, I received an interesting article about the developing technique of post-death tattoo preservation.[2] The….

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