Liberia, July 23 -- Oumou Hage has learned to expect delay. Not a denial, exactly - nobody has told her outright that she can't have the money her late husband set aside for her medical care. Just delay, one continuance at a time, while her health waits on a court date.

Milad Hage, the Lebanese businessman who built one of Red-Light Market's largest property portfolios before his death, left a will naming Oumou and eight other beneficiaries - his children - and spelling out provisions for her medical care. That should have settled things. It hasn't. Each time Oumou asks the court to release funds so she can travel abroad for treatment, the request has to clear an objection window for Nohad Hage Mensah, one of the nine beneficiaries, who...