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Catherine Simpson
Scottish novelist and memoirist; author of Hold Fast: Motherhood, My Autistic Daughter and Me
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Jun 28, 2026
Inheritance, Wills, and The Cost of Not Planning Ahead
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Reagan WhiteHOST
Are there some misconceptions around wheels that you'd really love to clear up in your day-to-day? I mean, surely there are some things where people don't quite get it, and you'd like, if you've got the opportunity, to clear it up.
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20:38Catherine SimpsonGUEST
I mean, the first one is some people don't bother to write one, which I think my views on that are probably quite clear so far in our conversation.
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20:51Catherine SimpsonGUEST
So give really detailed instructions or really broad brush and forget like mementos and kind of family recipes or like those types of things.
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21:00Catherine SimpsonGUEST
And more often than not, we see people get into a dispute over, you know, a musical instrument or a piece of jewelry rather than the monetary amount that they're due to receive.
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21:11Catherine SimpsonGUEST
And I think the other big one is that people assume that it will be really fast when it gets to that point.

Reagan WhiteHOST
How does that play into this whole thing? I mean, what is an estate, broadly speaking, and how can that change the picture of a will and what people might expect to inherit or not inherit?
'I Was Told the Problem Was Me’: Raising My Autistic Daughter
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19:19Catherine SimpsonGUEST
There was staff coming and going and chatting and laughing, you know, amongst themselves af- and then eventually one shouted across.
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19:27Catherine SimpsonGUEST
I'd been in labor, whatever, 10 hours or something, and they shouted across, "That baby's not out in half an hour, and I'm coming with the forceps." And, and, uh, this was 4:00 in the morning, and I hadn't got any effective pain relief.
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