What Sumner Redstone's Estate Planning Challenges Can Teach Us
Media mogul Sumner Redstone – owner of CBS and Viacom, among other holdings – allegedlycreated quite an estate planning mess, according to a recent report in the New York Times. A June 2, 2016 (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/business/media/in-sumner-redstone-affair-his-decline-upends-estate-planning.html) article reports that “with a fortune estimated at over $5 billion, Sumner M. Redstone could afford the bestestate planningthat money could buy. What he ended up with is