I’ve been considering just leaving everything to the Federal Government. I figure they could use it.
I have two nephews and two grown stepchildren. Assuming my husband dies before I do, every thing that’s mine goes to my nephews, and not a dime to my stepchildren. The steps have a trust fund from their grandparents, so I feel no guilt there.
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No children, no siblings, closest relatives are cousins who pretty much avoid interaction.
I’ve got quite a nice nest egg, thank-yew-very-much, due mostly to some good investment advice received in the 80’s. My relatives have no idea, because I don’t splash it around.
I imagine these relatives will be surprised when they learn the amount of money and assets that will 100% go to charities and medical research, after modest bequests are given to close friends and their children/grandchildren.
Divided among my nieces and nephews. If I don’t squander it all on medical care and nursing homes, they may actually get something worthwhile. Right now, my copyrights go to my publisher, but if I outlive her I’ll change that to my eldest niece.
Write a check to yourself and have it left in your casket before burial.
I don’t think I have any younger relatives that are in need of anything I have to offer. I’d be inclined to leave it to non-profit organizations I care about.
Apart from the fact that my aim is to die penniless, I’m inclined to say it should be shared amongst any living relatives, e.g. my brothers first then if they are dead, their children.
Obviously spouse first, then parents (if they’re still alive), and then nieces.
What is left over in my estate will go to my niece. That said I plan on reverse mortgaging the house so that I can retire early and spend all of my cash and slowly selling off my possessions while I am at home relaxing from and planning for my next world cruise.
Some to charity.
The rest to any surviving parent(s).
If my parents are gone, the rest to my cousin’s daughter, my nephew, and my best friend’s daughter. They’re all good kids and I’d be glad to help them out.
All my worldly goods and assets to be liquidated for cash. The cash should be arranged in neat stacks with my body atop inside the cheapest available coffin. The whole to then be cremated.
I own a farm that has been in my family for five generations. I have only one cousin on that side of my family and he is a famous good-for-nothing. He has five children and so far they seem to be ok; well, four of them anyhow. So the trust my DH and I have names the five of them to inherit the farm, as well as my car and the money in my bank account if any. DH has a famously g-f-n daughter and slightly less g-f-n son who will inherit our current house and the money in his bank account if any, as well as his truck and boat. Sad that the next generation is so rife with g-f-n and can only hope the next after that is better.
Note: g-f-n in my mind is not having a job, not paying one’s bills, being incapable of handling responsibilities, and not telling the truth. Those mentioned above all qualify.
For now, my father is still alive so my retirement fund is set up to distribute 50/50 to him and a close friend of mine. I really only own my car so he can do what he likes with it. If he doesn’t use the money for himself, I would hope he would donate it to something I believed in, like Catholic Charities or the Catholic WOrker, but I haven’t explicitly said that.
After he dies I will make arrangements that the money go directly to the non-profits.
We will have some very nicely supported and housed cats.
My husband’s nieces & nephews will probably get everything, but they’re in Europe so I’m not sure about the house. I haven’t actually met any family members in the generation below me (the closest are the children of a cousin, and none within a thousand miles). I don’t know what to do with family items with historical connections (stuff that belonged to great-grandparents or hundred-year-old pictures).
I’m tempted to leave everything to the children of my third cousins in Australia, just because (a) I know their parents slightly and their grandparents well, and (b) I love the idea of a surprise inheritance from a distant relative you never knew about.
So far, the plan of not dying seems to be working, but we should probably make a will.
I don’t expect to leave much, but do have a will for which my sister is executor. There are personal bequests of items, but if I should die before a specific great niece and nephew are 25, what’s left will go to them. If after, several charities near and dear to my heart.
If I have no one to inherit it, then I don’t care, I’m not going to make plans. What do I care what happens to it after I die?
Some of my money will go to charities mentioned in my will, and whatever’s left over will be placed in trust for my nieces, who are currently 13 and 15. I don’t plan to die before they reach the following ages, but if they do, the money will be accessible only for their medical and educational expenses until they’re 25 years old, at which time they will get half the balance, and the remainder when they’re 30.
If you don’t have something earmarked, it’s a big mess, and the state will get most of it.
When I die a portion of what litle I have(that’s assuming I do have something), will go to my two nephews, with about a third to charity.