Redmond Office Law Blog

When we think of celebrities and the heiress of an estate, we automatically assume that their affairs are always in order. We anticipate that they are surrounded by attorneys and have their Wills and Trusts all in place with people ready to step in at any moment. Unfortunately, we find very frequently that that is not the case. With the recent death of Casey Johnson, heiress to the Johnson & Johnson money, we learned that even a mother of a 3 year old child and a pet owner may not have had her affairs in order. Casey Johnson has been in the news so many times because of her relationship with reality television show host Tila Tequilla, but it was not Tila Tequilla that got her into the news as much as the custody of her two dogs. According to the news, Niki Hilton and Bijou Phillips requested that Tila Tequilla return the dogs to her and there was some issue as to whether or not one of the parties would be putting one of the older dogs down. Oddly enough, there was no mention in any of the reports about Casey Johnson leaving any directions not only about her 3 year old daughter, but about the placement of her pets. Each one of us has specific issues in our life and it is important that we leave the people that survive us details, not only on how we want our assets divided, but who we want to have custody of the things that are important to us, especially our children and our pets.