I am a lawyer who did probate for thirty years. I did hundreds of probates. Clients asked me how to value the contents of the home. I told them to call it personal property and that every person dies with personal property worth $500. Every estate inventory I did listed "personal property = $500." I never got in trouble for this labor-saving shortcut because just as the kids don't want it, the courts don't want to hear about it. Sometimes a client would want me to litigate something concerning personal property. I would explain that lawyers who litigate issues of personal property are mocked by other lawyers. I didn't want that to happen to me.