Either way, let both kids know your intentions, says Mary Lee Turk, a trust lawyer in Chicago.

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Either way, let both kids know your intentions, says Mary Lee Turk, a trusts lawyer in Chicago.

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The cast, uniformly superb, includes Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln, Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens, Hal Holbrook as Lincoln adviser Preston Blair, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Robert Todd Lincoln, David Strathairn as William Seward and James Spader as political operative W.N.

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