The Widow, the Bank, and the $8B Verdict

Re:The Widow, the Bank, and the $8B Verdict by user5994461 on Friday January 12, 2018 @04:46PM (#16136621)

>>> Lawsuits ensued. Jo sued the bank. The bank sued Jo. Jo sued her stepchildren. The stepchildren sued Jo. The stepchildren sued the bank. And so on.

Neither Jo nor the children wanted to negotiate. They forced each other to have a third party and they fought until there was nothing left to inherit.

A family with lesser means would ruin themselves with a cheaper executor. It's really common.

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Re:The Widow, the Bank, and the $8B Verdict by mindslight on Friday January 12, 2018 @06:07PM (#16137101)

That sentence is obviously talking about after JPMorgan was already on board. Do you have another article that states Jo was forced into nominating JPMorgan to act as the administrator, or which one of us is having the reading comprehension fail?

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Re:The Widow, the Bank, and the $8B Verdict by user5994461 on Saturday January 13, 2018 @02:16AM (#16138613)

>>> The children, as Jo calls them, even though they were both adults when she married Max, insisted on hiring JPMorgan as an independent administrator in part because they wanted someone impartial to handle any disputes that might arise. “That’s what the children wanted,” Jo says. “They wanted assurances. So I agreed.”

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Re:The Widow, the Bank, and the $8B Verdict by mindslight on Saturday January 13, 2018 @02:03PM (#16140749)

That is the exact passage I had quoted.

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