Grave consequences

The battle over former cross-talker Hou Yaowen's fortune is the talk of the town and illustrates the fact that not enough people make a will before they die.

It has been more than two years since Hou, son of cross-talk master Hou Baolin, died of heart failure at the age of 59.

"This case is full of changes and hard to predict," says Zhang Xi'an, vice professor in civil and commercial law at Northwest University of Politics and Law.