Estate Planning · April 24, 2026

Anne Heche died in 2022. Her family is still stuck in court nearly four years later. Missing records, creditor claims, and assets nobody could fully track down turned a period of grieving into years of legal and financial cleanup for the people she left behind. The unsettling part is how ordinary this actually is. Most families assume their loved ones will “figure it out,” until frozen accounts, unanswered questions, and court delays become the legacy they never meant to leave behind.