He told her that the lawyer’s fees were already paid and that all she had to do was sign the documents as presented. His lawyer’s secretary would be calling her early the next week to arrange for him to stop by to get a copy of her current Will and talk to her about any other changes she wanted in her Will.
His mother sighed and agreed that the changes had to be made, telling him that she would never leave her “little boy” without someone to take care of him. Since she was adopted and her parents were dead, there were no other relatives to call on in extremis. Her husband had been an only child and all of his other relatives aside from his mother had died a decade before. She agreed with Thomas that Mary was the only reasonable choice as an executor for her estate and that she would cooperate with his lawyer as completely as she could.