"Dover Beach" <moon.blanched@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Anny Middon" <AnnyMiddon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> AIUI the trust allows your heirs to avoid probate. Like QueBarbara we
>> haven't done wills yet. One question for the lawyer when we finally
>> get around to doing it is whether we want a trust. Not having
>> children, our estate will pass to nieces and nephews. If a trust is a
>> minor hassle for us we probably won't get one even if not having one
>> will cause them a big hassle. They're all a bunch of ingrates anyway.
>>
>
> I assume your last remark is an affectionate joke, but if it isn't, you
> might as well set up a will to leave your estate to your favorite
> charity.
>
Yeah, it is a joke. Another joke we make openly to the nieces and nephews
(and doesn't the English language need a word that means "offspring of a
sibling" without being ***-specific?), is that we're going to leave it all
to whoever takes the best care of us when we're old.
Actually, we have seven n&n's. Our plan is to divide our estate in
eighths
and leave one share to charity. What we'd like to do and need an attorney
to figure out the mechanics of,t is to have the will itself specify that
1/8
goes to charity, but name those charities in some kind of easily changed
codicil to the will.
We often discover a charity that we'd never heard of before that we like,
and we might want to add that to the list. Also sometimes a charity we've
sup****ted takes a turn and goes into some new line we don't sup****t. We'd
like to leave the money to a group of charities we fully sup****t.
Anny
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