sawali
17 Answers
ROMOS
Mainly to prevent your assets and estate from going to the State.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 8 | |
melandrupert
Darci13
Mainly to piss everyone off and make em fight for any assets you might have.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
Poppy3
Also as Romos said and to prevent arguments within family and your estate going to probate. As mel said get it done quickly - we all like me tend to procrastinate - I must get mine done.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
PEOPLELOVER
The best way as far as Australia is concerned in my opinion is to make your will in the office of the Public Trustee.. This person can help and guide you through some of the pitfalls of will making.This is a free service.
You should have a fully legal will so that after you die your estate can be devided in the manner you want, if you do not have a will your estate will be devided among your children or if no children your siblings.
If you wife is still alive and you have no will she automaicaly gets the total estate.
I further suggest you appoint the Public Trustee as the Executor, that is the person/s who ensure the terms of your will are "executed" as you wish. This is a low cost fee based on the size of your estate and you will be given an approximation of the costs at the time you make your will.
Why the public Trustee as Executor?
Totaly independant, no predjudice for or against anyone, this is rarely the case when you appoint a friend or family member as executor.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
mycatsmom
so your kids won't fight over your property. Better than making a will , is to make a living trust. Because a will still goes thru probate court. With a living trust, upon your death, your money adn property goes straight to your heirs who you choose. And with a living trust, you pick someone to be your medical advocate, andsomeone to be your power of attorney. It can be the same person for both.It's revocable....which means you can change your mind about who you picked for those positions; and it means that when you become well enough to do your own paper work again, the power of attorney has to back off.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
ed shank
So the government doesn't get it all.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
Off topic: Do you happen to know where the American/Canadian Board of Education is?
valR
You seem to be the ultimate expert in which case why did you ask this question? just to piss off the akaQA istas that bother to answer/(possibly help you)?
| 12 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
please read the article in the link and tell us what is your opinion on its content...http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/weird/muslim-cleric-reportedly-warns-cucumbers-too-sexy-for-women-to-handle/story-e6frev20-1226219068936
BLIMEY< GLAD YOU LOT ARE NOT MY RELLIES< HERE YOU GO ALMOST RIPPING ONE ANOTHERS THROATS OUT OVER A SIMPLE QUESTION WHICH APPEARS TO HAVE GOTTEN LOST IN THE TURMOIL>
STICK TO THE POINT FOR CRYING OUT LOUD>
Point for Ed, in the GReat South Land your family can refuse your cremation if you have not put in your will that you want cremation. Same goes for organ donation.
No romos not that sort of organ, bodily organs.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
In my humble opinion that is , why don`t you bugger Sawali off? or would that be seen as politicaly incorrect.
Bugger politicaly correcl tell him to shape up or ship out. Idiot.
robertgrist
I own nothing. My body is to be cremated and ashes to a river. Nothing is in my name. The money I have on my person is the property of my OL. The clothing I wear belongs to local charities. Thus I have no need for a will.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
To prevent your survivors fighting over any assets you might have left, save them time and money.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
nomdeplume
I wonder if Sawali is a Muslim? If so he will base his opinions on the Islamic rules on inheritance.
Sura 4:10 'A male shall inherit twice as much as a female. If there be more than two girls, they shall have two thirds of the inheritance...................................But this is the law of God; surely God is all-knowing and wise'.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
" 2. I am more intelligent than some "
3rd graders?
" 4. Things like what you do confines participants to JUST A FEW regulars."
Things like what? Explain this.
leosmaml
sawali,its a no brainer.Make a Will so after you die your estate passes on to who you want it to.In my case my son gets all my material possessions.My late Aunty died intestate,distant family who didnt even know her received part of her estate.If my son predeceases me,ill change my Will and the whole lot goes to charity.F*** DISTANT RELATIVES WHO NEITHER KNOW NOR CARE ABOUT ME!
| 12 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
Colleen
Sawali, you said, "Wills are not NEVER made to PISS off people!"
This is not true. This is actually the ultimate revenge a person can have on family members they did not get along with. They can leave them nothing or leave them a dollar just to really insult them and the whole purpose is to pi$$ them off and have the last laugh. This has happened many times throughout history. A will can be a tool of revenge. So, why make a will? This could be one reason and it applies to Darci's answer that you called "not an answer". People here do not have to respond according to your rules. I've told you this before. If you do not like the answers because they do not match yours, do not ask the questions.
You can not say I'm off topic either as I quoted your own posted words.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 2 | |
Bob/PKB
If you knew you were going to die on a certain day, you would have time to give your stuff to who you wanted, and make plans for your minor children to live with someone you trusted to care for them. You could establish a trust for their educations and otherwise take care of business before your passing. By making a will, you ensure that will happen.
In the U.S.A., a person who dies "in testate" (without a last will and testament) has a court-appointed conservator-type person to oversee the disbursement of the estate. My aunt died without a will, but I was her conservator during her life, so the responsibility became mine. Had she a living spouse, he would have inherited everything. EVERYTHING. She was a widow. Had she children, they would have evenly divided everything, EVENLY. She had no children, so no grandchildren (who would have inherited had their parents been deceased). HOWEVER, if she'd had 2 children and one was still living, the other one deceased with 3 children, the estate would be divided as follows: 1/2 to the living child. the remaining 1/2 would be divided equally among the 3 children of the deceased child. If one of those 3 children was deceased but had 2 children living, the portion 1/3 of 1/2 (1/6) of the estate would be divided equally between those two children.
As it were, my aunt's estate was divided among her living siblings and the children of her deceased siblings. One sibling was deceased but had no children. Another was deceased with one surviving child. The hardest part was finding the six children of my aunt who had died back in 1956 (this was 1993). One of them had changed her name. I found her through my uncle who had seen her "new" name in a news article.
She was a piece of work, full of rage and rant, scathing remarks about everyone. With all the scorn, you'd think she'd return the cashier's check....... you'd have thought wrong.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 2 | |
I don't think you had to follow the rules you laid out above. Unless you were instructed to do so by the court. Then you would.
Thats the value of having a will. Either you have one or the State has one for you.
daren1
i guess their's no point in making a will if you got nothing to leave , nor anyone to leave it to. my will is that of gods..
| 12 years ago. Rating: 2 | |
eggplant
You have a little potty-mouth sawali. Poor wife/wives.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 2 | |
