A person dies without a will, and the law dictates that assets go to estranged children rather than the partner they lived with for twenty years. An elderly parent changes their will while experiencing cognitive decline, leaving everything to one child who had isolated them from the rest of the family. Someone creates a will using an online template that contains errors, resulting in years of litigation after their death that consumes much of what they wanted to leave their children. A senior grants power of attorney to a trusted family member who then drains their bank accounts.