After My Promotion My Husband Demanded Separate Accounts And A Fifty Fifty Split Until Proof And A Certified Envelope Changed Everything – The Archivist
because written things have a quality that spoken things do not, a solidity, a resistance to being later characterized as ambiguous or misremembered.
“The trust has a trustee,” he continued, “and the estate has an executor. Those roles govern the distribution of assets. They matter more than anyone’s interpretation of custom or expectation.”