Did you make your will yet ?

lulu1

Was reading a thread the other day about having something in your will as to who will care for your pets when you pass away.

It gave me something to think about.

Myself and oh have been talking for years about making a will but never got around to it.

Not that we have much to leave anyone but have seen the fighting and fall outs of families when no will was made

This is on my to do list sooner rather than later

Anyone else in the same boat.

Badly Drunk Boy

When I bought my house nearly 18 years ago, as soon as everything was signed and sorted, my solicitor said "So...would you like to make your will now?". At the age of 24, I thought "What? No thanks! I'm young!!".

At this stage, I still haven't made it, but I've no kids and no significant other so I suppose everything would just go to my family. The thing is, how can you say what or how much to give to whom?

I do not have enough worldly possessions to make a will that much worth while. Except for my land and the things I have done to it (I have seriously pimped my house and garden and land due to me being a complete DIY freak - I have an outdoor heated jacuzzi with sound system - with ports for most music players - a spare granny flat studio apartment type house I built single handedly without any professionals - and a BBQ-pizza-oven and cocktail bar made entirely out of stone)

But I have made a will all the same - mainly because my somewhat unusual relationship needs a lot of legal clarification in terms of next of kin and inheritance and guardianship rights over children. But mostly that is all the will deals with - and how my various life insurance plans should be executed and stuff like that (as the plans I have benefit the benefactor MUCH more over a long pay out than a one time payout so just in case my children go for a quick pay off - I have stipulated in a few ways they can not do this).

And in the worst tier of complexity - where the legal mumbo jumbo really gets eye watering - a chunk of my will deals with what would happen if I died simultaneously with one or both of my partners. Because without a will inheritance and other benefits - and detriments such as taxes - would default in weird ways between us before being passed on to next of kin - in many ways getting taxed on each jump that may leave little behind if anything. So a lot of my will and the will of the girls details how our "estates" will NOT be executed after our death - more than how they will.

Suffice to say that one thing I have learned to hate in my life - despite one of the gfs being pretty much now a doctorate and masters in law - is law. I barely understand the language of it - NEVER understand the side implications and nuances - and I hate - the one thing in my life I can genuinely use that word for - HATE - hours lost pouring over words and their implications on legal documents. To the point of literally pouring over two sentences for hours - with only one word different between them - and exploring the implications of the merits and demerits of the two words.

In fact making a will has to be the one time in my recent life I have genuinely actually wanted to die. Which is true irony.

jamesbere

I don't own anything of any great value that would be worth putting in a will.

Son Of A Vidic

NachoBusiness wrote: »

No, I don't manufacture drugs anymore and stop calling me will.

Shirley you can't be serious?

Nib

Thread title.

*dies a little inside*

recylingbin

I'm leaving my username to science.

Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker

I haven't. My wife will get everything by default where I live, so there's no point making a will really.

Honestly though, I'll be dead, I won't care.

Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker

Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker wrote: »

I haven't. My wife will get everything by default where I live, so there's no point making a will really.

And in the case of simultaneous death as I mentioned above? You know - like a car crash - or a kinky asphyxiation session gone horribly wrong (or right depending on your sexual view point).

lulu1

Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker wrote: »

I haven't. My wife will get everything by default where I live, so there's no point making a will really.

Honestly though, I'll be dead, I won't care.

But god forbid if your wife was to go before you or you both went together

biko

Vse zene

Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker

Deleted User wrote: »

And in the case of simultaneous death as I mentioned above? You know - like a car crash - or a kinky asphyxiation session gone horribly wrong (or right depending on your sexual view point).

lulu1 wrote: »

But god forbid if your wife was to go before you or you both went together

We've got no kids, so it really doesn't matter

anncoates

We have kids and property so it's handier to have a will. It's cheap and easy to do. Obviously your spouse just inherits if you die intestate but you can appoint a guardian and executor in the will in case both of you die when your kids are minors.

Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker

Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker wrote: »

We've got no kids, so it really doesn't matter

Well can I be the first to volunteer myself to be your main benefactor

I grow a LOT of plants and herbs - so your money would mostly go towards the environment.

As per usual - if interested - please send me an email starting with "I am a Nigerian prince and I want to bestow my fortunes on your in return for your bank details............"

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

My dad did. He told me to bury all of his significant fortune in the coffin with him.

I wrote the w*nker a cheque.

KERSPLAT!

Nope but I've a little lad to think of now so it's about time I did.

The Cunning Linguist

The Cunning Linguist wrote: »

My dad did. He told me to bury all of his significant fortune in the coffin with him.

I wrote the w*nker a cheque.

Actually part of my will has been HEAVILY influenced (by which I mean I literally ripped it off him and stole it for my own) by another poster on boards.ie

In that - in my will it stipulates that it will be publicly declared I will be buried with my mobile phone.

But the "secret" part of my will stipulates that the SIM card stays with my lawyer. And it has been made incumbent upon him to use this SIM card two days after my funeral to start phoning people.

I just had to rip this idea off. There are just too many people in my life where I can genuinely see their face when they get a phone call from the dead me in the coffin.

I am not sure how much pain I may be under when I die - but the sheer comedy of this idea in my will is such that I may die laughing all the same.

DavyD_83

I have none at the moment. Now that I have a house wife and baby i have been meaning to get round to it. Spoke to my solicitor last year around time baby was born. As said above, was told that things are relatively simple if one of us dies, but if something were to happen to both of us it is better to have our own wishes documented, particularly regarding what happens to our child etc.

In October, there is an initiative to get a will made for €50 which might be helpful. Going to try get everything discussed and agreed in time to take advantage of this myself. If nothing else, it gives us something of a deadline.
http://www.mylegacy.ie/go/best_will_in_the_world_week

Banjo String

After a very premature death in my family, it's something we really need to get seeing to.

born2bwild

What in the name of all that is decent is your'e?

Learn to spell before you bother with your will.

cloud493

Death napkin in the car.

jimgoose

Who wants to know??

_Kaiser_

Nope, don't have much worth leaving as I don't own property, and I'm sure no-one would want my bills

Rookie question but I assume that in such an eventuality anything there was of value would go to children right?

Menas

I do need to get one. We have a child and if myself and herself died then we would want the will to state who we would prefer to look after our child. Stop any potential messing.
Is that legally sound though? Or just 'advisement' that a judge would consider if a custody case made it to court?

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Yeah I did it last year the day before I turned 26. Lot of things have changed since then so I need to change it