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Australians scrap over money gone to the dogs

Aug 31, 2009, 6:22 GMT

Sydney - The time has passed when Australians accepted with good grace a rich relative's large bequest to the local dogs' home, animal welfare organization RSPCA said Monday. Nowadays, said RSPCA bequest manager Esther Krizmancic, the response is often to challenge the will to try and get the money for themselves. 'Contesting the will happens all the time,' she said. 'Families have become quite litigious and that's something that they do.' Because bequests cover half the RSPCA's operating costs, the society is urging intending benefactors to make plain their intentions so that aggrieved family members can't make out a case in court that they have been cut out of a will unfairly.

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