Will Stories

The Tipton Boys: 


Billy Tipton was a famous jazz era band leader. While Billy never formally married - and a number of woman had licenses reading "Mrs. Tipton" - the equitable wife was a nightclub singer and stripper named Kitty, also known as "The Irish Venus." Together they had three boys, children not officially adopted, but taken into their homes through some shady hospital and cash deals. After arguments over how to raise the boys, Kitty and Billy split and Billy kept the boys, living poorly in a mobile home with an ex-lover. The boys never knew that their father was actually born Dorothy and remained biologically female. Dorothy had become Billy because women could not break into show business. Billy's numerous women claimed they had never known either - that Billy told women s/he had been in a car accident and had to remain bandaged. Billy's will left his first son virtually everything, with only a dollar going to his two other sons. In a later ruling, the three sons were awarded equal shares of Tipton's estate, including the penis packer and binds used to effect Billy's transformation. When Kitty died, the court argued that although the sons had never been officially adopted - and thus were arguably not heirs - they'd just been through enough and let them have her estate. Washington has never dealt with another equitable adoption inheritance case - this case may arguably our only thin precedent for children raised as one's own standing to inherit as descendants.

Hillblom Estate:

Larry Hillblom was the H in DHL. In addition to delving into industry and philanthropy, he liked to fly around in his plane, particularly if the plane took him to far flung islands across the world, such as Guam, the Marianas, the Phillipines, and so on. There, he would indulge in another of his favorite activities: deflowering young virgin girls. After all this flying, he eventually, vanished. His body was never found. His will leaving everything to the University of California, but many states, including California allow children left out of a will to bring suit. Perhaps, not an issue at first glance, as Hillblom had no legally recognized children. But those young virgins had had his children and these children came together from the far flung recesses of the world to make a claim on his estate. Every speck of DNA had mysteriously been cleaned out from his house and his living relations declined to be tested, so the group scrambled to prove paternity. At one point, they were trying to use a removed mole to get DNA.One child, Junior, had a brilliant lawyer who suggested instead they take the DNA of all the children scattered across these islands and only contact was proven to be Larry Hillblom. DNA test showed they all had the same father. Ultimately, his mom or sister donated DNA to firmly establish that these children were relations. Junior is now most likely the richest man in Guam.