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• A spouse and children • The spouse and children share the inheritance, and you ideally deal with the spouse.

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• The parents inherit everything, and you deal with the parents (who hopefully work together).

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• The siblings inherit everything, and you deal with them (plus all of the unresolved sibling rivalry).

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