Book Review: Inheriting Clutter: How to Calm the Chaos Your Parents Leave Behind by Julie Hall
Book Review: Inheriting Clutter: How to Calm the Chaos Your Parents Leave Behind by Julie Hall January 12, 2022 By Melinda Gustafson Gervasi My rating: 3 out of 5 stars Julie Hall's book, Inheriting Clutter: How to Calm the Chaos Your Parents Leave Behind , consists of 16 chapters along with several resources in the appendix. From the book's title, I anticipated a more narrowly focused discussion of how to handle the physical "stuff" that makes up an estate. However, Hall spent significant time exploring more general estate planning and probate concepts: what is a will, how powers of attorney work, what is probate, etc. Overall, the book provides the reader with some excellent suggestions on how to locate and secure a qualified appraiser for personal possessions, options for distributing tangible property from an estate, and where to look for hidden money of valuables in a home (i.e. check inside all the shoes). The appendices offer some useful...