Don’t call them “lenders.” That’s the pushback David Horton got after an article he co-wrote called “Probate Lending” published in a law review journal in 2016. The article described the business practice of offering an estate’s beneficiaries an advance on their expected inheritance. In each deal he analyzed, the heir would get a slice of […]
Author Archives: Amy DiPierro
Amy DiPierro is a data journalist at the Center for Public Integrity. She previously reported for The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, Calif. and BusinessDen in Denver, Colo. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Stanford University, where she was a Knight-Hennessy Scholar and a fellow at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation. She was a contributor to the project “Nowhere to go”, which was honored with a Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists.
