On Jun 23, 10:04*pm, Christine Dabney > wrote:
> Heya folks,
>
> I am in orientation all this week..and today we had several speakers.
> One was a chaplain, who asked us if we had Living Trusts and wills.
>
> This got me thinking...and thinking about my kitchenware and
> cookbooks, among other things. *The slightly morbid part is wondering
> how to give those to people that enjoy food and cooking, and to whom
> they should go to, after I am gone.
>
> I put this question to the cookbook collectors first of all.. Are you
> planning to leave your cookbooks to family? *Or do something else with
> them?

Well, I'm not a cookbook collector, but...

I expect I'll leave everything to... The Nature Conservancy? The Ark
Coffeehouse here in Ann Arbor? Planned Parenthood? Something
like that. My executor will no doubt have an estate sale, and
everything
I own will go to strangers. I don't have any family younger than me.
(At least, none that I have any contact with.) I won't need a will
until my
husband is dead, although I probably should have one anyway, in case
we get in a car accident and die simultaneously.

The only cooking thing I have that is at all interesting is my
great-grandmother's Griswold cast iron skillet. I very rarely use
it, because it's only about 6 inches across. Maybe my grandmother's
set of cordial glasses. IIRC, they're very thin pinkish cut glass.
(I should get them down out of the "we never use these things"
cupboard
and see if they have any markings on them.)

Cindy Hamilton

Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> I own will go to strangers. I don't have any family younger than me.
> (At least, none that I have any contact with.) I won't need a will
> until my
> husband is dead, although I probably should have one anyway, in case
> we get in a car accident and die simultaneously.

Both of you should have a will. What happens if heaven forbid, you go
first?
--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.

Janet Wilder wrote:
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
>> I own will go to strangers. I don't have any family younger than me.
>> (At least, none that I have any contact with.) I won't need a will
>> until my
>> husband is dead, although I probably should have one anyway, in case
>> we get in a car accident and die simultaneously.
>
> Both of you should have a will. What happens if heaven forbid, you go
> first?


I need to re-write mine. I did it years ago and made my lawyer the
executor. I should make my wife or son executor and leave it to them to
hand the work over to a lawyer if they need help with probate.

Apparently executing wills is a really money maker for lawyers. Mr
brother had (no longer has) a friend who is a lawyer and has managed to
write himself in as executor of wills all over town. He checks out the
obituaries every day and when he sees that one of his clients has died
he scoots over to lock up the house, calls in an appraiser and figures
out how much everything is worth so that he can get his percentage out
of the estate.

My brother was co-executor of my aunt's will along with her old lawyer.
He tried to get the lawyer to excuse himself from the position. No way.
He wanted his share of the executor's fee.

On Jun 24, 2:33*pm, Janet Wilder > wrote:
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > I own will go to strangers. *I don't have any family younger than me.
> > (At least, none that I have any contact with.) I won't need a will
> > until my
> > husband is dead, although I probably should have one anyway, in case
> > we get in a car accident and die simultaneously.
>
> Both of you should have a will. What happens if heaven forbid, you go
> first?

Um. If I'm dead, I won't care.

Cindy Hamilton

Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Jun 24, 2:33 pm, Janet Wilder > wrote:
>> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> I own will go to strangers. I don't have any family younger than me.
>>> (At least, none that I have any contact with.) I won't need a will
>>> until my
>>> husband is dead, although I probably should have one anyway, in case
>>> we get in a car accident and die simultaneously.
>> Both of you should have a will. What happens if heaven forbid, you go
>> first?
>
> Um. If I'm dead, I won't care.
>

Even if I was dead, I would hate the fact that the government was
deciding who got my estate, not me.


--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.

On Jun 25, 1:29*pm, Janet Wilder > wrote:

> Even if I was dead, I would hate the fact that the government was
> deciding who got my estate, not me.

Granted. But if I'm going to do anything at all,
an advance directive/living will would probably
be a much smarter thing to do.

Of course, the one does not preclude the other.

A quick google suggests that if he survives me (more likely than us
dying simultaneously), he'll get everything anyway. If my mother
outlives me and I die intestate, she might be awarded part of
my estate (which is pretty small).

I think it's quite likely I'll outlive him, though. The hardest thing
will be disposing of the contents of his workshop.

Cindy Hamilton