The concern you raise has been worrying families for many generations. When you enter into a long term partnership with a spouse, raise a family, work to create financial security and plan for the future, you hope those efforts and plans will be fulfilled even if you are the first to die. You hope that your long terms plans will be honored by your spouse even after your direct influence is gone. Too often that hope is ignored or forgotten by the surviving spouse. The survivor

Dear Mr. Premack: My wife died and a while after her death, her best friend and I started living together. We do not want to get married. We are living in her house and renting out my house. What do we do now to protect ourselves and our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren? MG and WN People are living longer and sometimes, as circumstances change, old friendships change into romantic and supportive relationships. Getting old does not mean that romance or the need