Estate Planning in Family Businesses

USAToday offers an interesting case study of the challenges family businesses face in estate planning.
“The Mauns face a challenge shared by many owners of family businesses: how to manage their estate. They want to leave the gas stations to the son who manages them, and divide the remaining assets among their seven surviving children and the daughter of their oldest son, who is deceased.”
A separate article offers some creative advice for this family from an expert estate planner.
(Thanks to Law & Entrepreneurship for their link to this story.)