• even though he had inherited a fortune, the "millionaire hobo" James Eads How chose to live as a homeless vagrant?
• after Leander Clark College went bankrupt and merged with Coe College, an heir of the school's namesake sued to have his donation returned?
• Broadway actress Evelyn Hoey was found shot dead in the bedroom of oil heir Henry H. Rogers's grandson in 1935?

Facts on topics related to Inheritance

Marriage

• Danish mass murderer Peter Lundin got married twice while in prison?
• the married couple Jerzy and Irena Krępeć (pictured), Polish Righteous among the Nations, saved over 30 Jewish refugees during the Holocaust?
• under the First Organic Laws of Oregon, the de facto constitution of the Provisional Government, women could get married at the age of 14?

Family

• former U.S. judge Samuel Zoll once ordered a family to eat dinners together for 30 days, sending a parole officer for verification?

Adoption

• Horatia N. Thompson (pictured) was christened with Lord Nelson and Mrs Emma Hamilton as godparents and was later adopted by them as an orphan, even though they were her biological parents?
• Melek Tourhan, whose father offered her for adoption as an infant in order to improve her lot in life, went on to become Sultana of Egypt?

Household

• among the Rikbaktsa (pictured), an indigenous people of Brazil, each household traditionally was a separate political unit?