probate in Union County for thirty-five years.
I met her in her office above the bank on a Wednesday afternoon. I brought Brittany. She drove down from Ankeny and took a personal day.
We told her everything.
Margaret listened without interrupting. When we were done, she took off her reading glasses and set them on her desk.
“I’m going to be honest with you girls,” she said. “Because I think you’d want me to be.”
“Please,” I said.
“What you’re describing sounds like it could be undue influence,” she said. “A parent with a terminalGet Parenting Tips
diagnosis, on hospice, on morphine. Children who benefit from the change, driving him to the lawyer’s office. A prior will that went the other way. If you’d come to me two years ago, I’d have said you had something worth looking at.”
“But,” I said.
“But,” Margaret said. “In Iowa, you have a limited time to contest a will. Generally, the later of four months after the second publication of the notice to creditors, or one month after the notice is
