Don’t rely on the courts to OK your will

A Queensland, Australia, court has accepted a dead man’s unsent draft text message, leaving his possessions to his brother and nephew instead of his wife and son, as an official will.

The Supreme Court in Brisbane heard the 55-year-old took his own life in October 2016, after composing a text addressed to his brother, which indicated his brother and nephew should, “keep all that I have”, because he was unhappy with his wife.