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by krisoft 742 days ago
> but you haven't spent years engaging with the legal process and waiting for the estate to try and make sure you can't have it

I mean in the proposed alternative that wouldn't happen because you would tell them "hey I think this is a mistake, i think he just forgot to update the beneficiary". You only have the years of legal process where you decide that you should keep the money.