My Question of the Day: As part of a program at work and/or school (that will either earn you extra credit for a class in which you’re really struggling and/or give you an advantage for a promotion at work) you decide to participate in the school’s/company’s program of partnering with the local elder care facility to be a companion to an elder who doesn’t get any/many visitors. Even though you would rather be doing anything else, you are faithful to the mission and always show up when you say you’ll show up and you’re pleasant, engaging and willing to do whatever your elder asks of you.

After almost a year of participating in the program, you receive a letter saying that your elder has passed away, and his/her lawyer requests that you come to his/her office on a specified date at a specified time for the reading of the elder’s will, which includes you. When you show up for the reading of the will, you are shocked when the lawyer introduces you to the elder’s four adult children, none of whom the elder ever spoke of and none of whom ever visited while you knew the elder.

The lawyer reads the will. The elder has excluded all of his/her children and left you his/her entire multi-million-dollar estate to thank you for your time and kindness. The four adult children explode with anger and promise they are going to fight the validity of the will, which you know will cause the entire estate to be tied up in litigation for months, maybe years. What do you do?

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