The latest episode of Kids Behaving Badly features Tasha Tudor's heirs. They've been battling for nearly two years in Vermont courts over the $2 million estate of the famed children's book author and illustrator. Tudor's charming illustrations for such books as "Little Women" and 'The Secret Garden" inspired an eccentric, 19th century lifestyle -- she raised her children in a home without electricity or running water. She died in June 2008, at 92.
Tudor's will asked that she be buried with her predeceased dogs and the ashes of her pet rooster, according to an AP report. The bulk of her estate went to a son and grandson; three other children received small amounts -- triggering an all-out battle in court. The heirs couldn't even agree on how to handle the burial of her ashes, so a judge ordered her cremated remains divided in half.
Sad, very sad.