Four days after Michael Jackson died, his family gathered at his brother Jermaine’s house in Calabasas, Calif., to hear one of Mr. Jackson’s lawyers read a will he drafted in 2002.
After the lawyer, John G. Branca, read the document — which named Mr. Jackson’s mother, Katherine, the guardian of his three children and a beneficiary of 40 percent of the estate — the group broke out in applause%2
