The plot i bought will never be used. My ashes will be scattered.I have no idea where I want to go. Neither of our families have anything like a family area in a cemetery. I don't think we have more than two family members in any cemetery.
The plot i bought will never be used. My ashes will be scattered.I have no idea where I want to go. Neither of our families have anything like a family area in a cemetery. I don't think we have more than two family members in any cemetery.
What happens with it? Passed on in your will? Contract says too bad, so sad and the cemetery sells it again?The plot i bought will never be used. My ashes will be scattered.
Supposedly nothing. Can't legally be resold or passed on to anyone. When i take the big dirt nap,i won't care. And I've done dumber things with money.What happens with it? Passed on in your will? Contract says too bad, so sad and the cemetery sells it again?
Bastards. I'd bury a stuffed animal just so they cant resell it. Finally a use for the gently used caskets that pop up for sale.Supposedly nothing. Can't legally be resold or passed on to anyone. When i take the big dirt nap,i won't care. And I've done dumber things with money.
In the case of my sister and myself we had Power of Attorney for my dads health and property, so we were able to direct his level of care, pay his bills/transfer money/transfer the property all while he was alive.So...following my surgery I realized I am an idiot and currently do not have a will for me and my wife.
We don't have a lot of assets (house, some bank accounts, RESPs, RRSP, TFSA) etc but I think it's time to get this lined up.
Anyone have a recommendation? Ideally same guy would do our HELOC to the house as well as I want to get the funds and I don't want to put this off any longer.
Can you still scatter ashes at sea? or at will? I know Mom always has a film canister with some of Dad's ashes just in case she wants to leave a little of him somewhere nice but she always does it on the sly.
Plots are big enough to fit a Tenere. I'd leave the handlebars sticking out of the ground.Supposedly nothing. Can't legally be resold or passed on to anyone. When i take the big dirt nap,i won't care. And I've done dumber things with money.
Bury me with my butt sticking up, so when you come to visit you can park your bicycle.Plots are big enough to fit a Tenere. I'd leave the handlebars sticking out of the ground.
Poor Tenere. Bikes are normally in better shape when WB is done with them than when they were new.Plots are big enough to fit a Tenere. I'd leave the handlebars sticking out of the ground.
We have just come through a three year fight to settle a family will.
Yes, get a will and POAs but.......
Not to MP specifically but a will isn't worth the paper it's written on if your life or that of your family is a mess.
A relative had made lots of bad decisions in his life, was broke and apparently owed money to an unknown number of people.
He challenged the will and legal costs fighting him sucked a ton of money out of the estate. He claimed dependency and was trying to hijack the estate, holding up settlement because if he inherited anything the creditors could grab assets. Other heirs would have to wait decades for their shares
A settlement was negotiated giving him a few extra percent. To go further meant court hearings, disclosures, mediation with five digit tabs for each step. We consulted with a top of the line estate attorney and were told there was no way of guessing how the final settlement would play out.
Kickers:
Warning to executors: The executor went through hell because he didn't know the family dynamics. An executor has a very limited time to back out of the job. Had this gone a different way he could have been babysitting the estate for decades.
The other heirs weren't all that hard up for the money so the challenger is the only one suffering.
If you relate this to any experienced estate lawyer they could probably top it.
Leaving money to people of unknown financial abilities often leads to a blown inheritance. Toys are bad enough. Drugs are worse.
Morals? If the one with issues took their lumps (get inheritance, have it seized by creditors) the others might have been more inclined to help them out as they hadnt wasted a fortune on lawyers (which also creates resentment).So how could this situation have been avoided? I'm guessing your relative was simply following the advice of his own estate lawyer. Sort of like how an amicable divorce degenerates after the lawyers get involved.
The evil in this case was IMO premeditated. I suspect that one day he realized that if his mother died he wouldn't have her house to live in nor her savings and pensions to feed and clothe him. He rarely worked so he spent his time on his computer in his mother's basement researching solutions to his self made problems. With no income his reasonable share of the estate wouldn't buy him a house or the status he thought he deserved.So how could this situation have been avoided? I'm guessing your relative was simply following the advice of his own estate lawyer. Sort of like how an amicable divorce degenerates after the lawyers get involved.