Taxation & Estate Planning

Nina Wang Probate Dispute

By Joel A. Schoenmeyer

Isn't it funny how some people seem to be magnets for probate disputes? Anna Nicole Smith had a dispute during her life (over her husband's estate), and now there's a dispute following her death. The same is true of Nina "Little Sweetie" Wang. I blogged here about the controversy surrounding her husband's death. Now there is a fight over the estate of "Little Sweetie" herself. This article has the juicy details. The dispute pits Mrs. Wang's father-in-law, Wang Din-Shin, against "Tony Chan, a married feng shui master who claims to be Ms Wang's secret lover, [and who] says she wrote a new will in 2006 in which she named him as the sole heir."

Full post as published by Death and Taxes Blog on May 13, 2009 (boomark / email).