Next Of Kin

Categories: Trusts and Estates

The closest relative. The one who'd be there when they pull the plug on you in the hospital after that idiot was texting on her phone and ran into you, leaving your brain...canteloupe.

Next of kin matters in legal/financial circles, as they are, more or less, the default "go-to" person in cases of ambiguity.

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