Miss Naughty

Blow you cash when you have it!!

EsuriJohn

Hi jo197,

Yes! If you want to have any influence over the disposal of your remains.

Regards,

John.

Mitzyboy

I cant decide either way, so I think burial at sea is a good compromise. I have written to seafrance (as they are cheap) to see if I can be lobbed off the bows in the middle of the channel and then everyone can go for a meal in the seafarers restaurant.

BigD

You can now have your ashes turned into Diamonds.
I should imagine it is quite costly though?
My partner is a Gilder (Laying of Gold Leaf) he Gilds Funeral Urns for humans and pets for people who want to have a Keepsake.

mikelincs

Apparently if you only have an English will it may not be adhered to, and your estate decided in Spanish law. We made wills here soon after we arrived, no expensive, and we at least know that our wishes will be met.

gallerie9

can you word them the same as an english will, but i am unsure how to word it.
we want each other to have it all untill we are both gone and then the kids have it then ?

Unexpat

That's a good question and one that I have on my list to research when I get some more time.

I suspect that it depends on whether Spanish or UK law applies to you on your demise, which probably depends on where you are considered to be resident at the time.

Then again it may be that it depends on your citizenship, irrespective of where you are resident, so long as you have both an English and Spanish will (that tally with each other so that the will is recognised in both countries).

If you fall under Spanish law, I believe that you will find that your children must inherit a minimum proportion of your estate, by law, upon your demise. i.e. Your surviving spouse cannot inherit all the estate.

There are also the much higher levels of inheritance tax that one has to pay under Spanish law and the less favourable surviving spouse inheritance conditions - if I'm not mistaken (which I may well be, as I have yet to research the subject properly).

I'm assuming that if you are resident in Spain (irrespective of whether your will will operate on the basis of English law where your spouse can inherit all) then your Spanish assets fall due to Spanish taxation regardless.

Hopefully, someone out there can educate us both

jonsol

ER,....They ( ashes ), need to thrown off the STERN Mitzyboy. ( thats the back of the vessel ), otherwise they will get all over the people down wind ! ! ! :scared:

poollounger

Well depends on if you have a following wind Jonsol..the apparent wind caused by the vessels forward movement could be cancelled out by a stong following wind so that he ends up with the ashes all over the deck and everyone coughing and spluttering as they inhale and swallow Mitzyboy!!!!

mikelincs

Yes, you can word it exactly as you please, mine is worded exactly the same way as it was in the UK, think your wording is what would happen here anyway even if you didn't leave a will. We just wrote ours out as we wanted, it went to the lawyers and we went in a few days later to go throiugh it with them and sign it, a very painless experience. We were given a pro forma which showed just what we had to do, just filled the relevant bits in and that was that, but ours was done via our aftersales service.

Mitzyboy

Not with SeaFrance .... they're always going backwards

mikelincs

What we all need to do is to go SKIing, that's 'Spending the Kids Inheritance'.

gallerie9

Well thats what my mum and dad are doing but when i said we are doing the same I got a lecture on children being entitled LOL
The words "do unto others" but it fell on deaf ears
But yes we will be doing the same
As she said to me well you dont need it lol
I said well neither will my kids when they are 50 plus LOL

Mitzyboy

There can be a lot of pressure to leave your kids something can't there. Its almost expected, especially as it seems that every generation is a little bit better off than the previous. I think we'll spend the cash and leave the home!

gallerie9

Well my parents are spending the cash and leaving the home to our kids LOL
So i dont think there is any need for me to do either LOL