Make-A-Will Month is a good reminder to think about this. But for business owners, a will barely scratches the surface. I work with business owners on exactly these questions, and the gaps I find are almost always the same.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known as Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show, died in 2025. One year later, his widow alleges $1.2 million in unfulfilled premarital obligations: a life insurance policy never purchased, a Roth IRA never funded, and anniversary payments never made. A nine-year-old daughter is at the center of the dispute. Here’s what more thorough follow-through on the planning could have helped prevent.