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Choosing a guardian can be a couple's hardest task

August 1, 2009 By The Associated Press JOCELYN NOVECK (AP National Writer)

NEW YORK (AP) — The husband and wife went back and forth, back and forth. Yet however long they talked, they couldn't agree on who should take care of their young kids if, heaven forbid, something happened to both of them.

And so they made an unusual agreement, according to their lawyer: If the children were orphaned in an even-numbered year, the guardian would be the wife's choice, from her...

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