Runner-Up in Reality Fiction 2025 Pencraft Book Awards
Estate
In a world beyond control, you can CHOOSE to avoid the worst:
27% of adult children estranged from their parents
Crypto forces families into probate
Over 58,000 estates probated/yr in TX
Average 18 months in probate in CA
It's not just about the stuff, the money, and the law.
A prepared estate also "encompasses our spiritual connections with children, friends, and family."
And don't forget the pets.
The award-winning author, J. Andrew Shelley, has lived a life in America’s extremes.
He grew up in Tennessee and adulted in Massachusetts. Trained in social sciences, he spent decades in the worlds of new tech and people-first process in the finance, insurance, and security industries.
He has experienced the passage of dear family as a grandson, son, brother, cousin, and son-in-law, and many of the departures were needlessly tumultuous. His latest books, the Estate series, were birthed out of that turmoil.
