It's too bad that the earlier reports of Winehouse having done proper estate planning have proven to be inaccurate. Mitch is the estate administrator, according to the probate documents. Instead of money passing to her brother or to her ex-husband, it will all go to Winehouse's parents, Mitch and Janis. For example, did Winehouse want her older brother, Alex, to inherit anything? He doesn't, because she had no will. That's the biggest problem with procrastinating with estate planning you have no say over 'who' receives 'what' when you die. Whether that's true or not, it doesn't matter at this point, because there is no will. Some have speculated that Winehouse still loved him and would have left him something if she had a will.

What of her ex-husband, Fielder-Civil, who has been serving a lengthy jail sentence for burglary related to his drug addiction? As an ex-spouse, he gets nothing. None of these types of assets would be included in her estate value as listed in the probate documents. Also, if Winehouse had a trust - which is unlikely, considering she didn't have a will - anything held in the trust would also avoid probate.

So anything held jointly with someone else, or that had a beneficiary designation (like a life insurance policy), would pass outside of probate, directly to the other person. The assets passing through probate court are those left in her individual name when she died. But, let's not jump to conclusions so quickly.

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