Even those with plenty of disposable income can get tangled up in an estate planning mess — normally because they didn’t take the time to talk to an attorney who could help them. In some cases these celebrities tried a do-it-yourself method that backfired, and in other cases they left much more to the government in taxes than to their family (which could have been avoided, all by sitting down and planning ahead of time).

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