indirect financial interest in the Phoenix house, but I had never taken the time to examine the fine print carefully.
Halfway down the very first page of the property schedule, one particular sentence stopped me cold.
It clearly stated that no named beneficiary could ever be permanently deprived of primary residence in the property by any surviving occupant.
The next morning at eight, I called Warren Sterling, the family attorney who had handled my mother’s estate years earlier.
When I explained exactly what had happened at the dinner table the
