70% of African Americans who have no will or estate plan in place. Chadwick Boseman’s widow, Taylor Simone Ledward, recently filed a probate case to ask a judge to make her an administrator with limited authority of his estate, which is reportedly worth nearly $1 million.Despite the importance of estate planning, Boseman never put one in place before succumbing to a four-year battle with colon cancer.
Without a will and without children, the surviving spouse (in this case, Ledward) typically inherits all the assets of the probate estate.Ledward quietly married the Black Panther star shortly before his death.
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