OT - Last Will and Testament
Mar 27th 2007, 6:30 pm
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Re: OT - Last Will and Testament
I agree Bob .. you need a separate will for assets in another country ...
I had both a UK and US lawyer advise that.....
I had my wife as main executor and two others in each country
if we died at the same time ...
Also ensure the executors are younger than yourself ..
or they may clog it before you and you need a fresh will or have to add
a codicill
I had both a UK and US lawyer advise that.....
I had my wife as main executor and two others in each country
if we died at the same time ...
Also ensure the executors are younger than yourself ..
or they may clog it before you and you need a fresh will or have to add
a codicill
Should really get that done... but I'm the world's biggest procrastinator when it comes to wills and taxes.
Taxes...
Mar 27th 2007, 6:33 pm
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Re: OT - Last Will and Testament
Same here - though I admit I feel somewhat uncomfortable. We have 'proper' wills in the UK but only 'homemade' ones in the US. Just never got around to consulting a lawyer here.
Should really get that done... but I'm the world's biggest procrastinator when it comes to wills and taxes.
Taxes...
Should really get that done... but I'm the world's biggest procrastinator when it comes to wills and taxes.
Taxes...
Re: OT - Last Will and Testament
Mar 27th 2007, 6:44 pm
#19
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Re: OT - Last Will and Testament
I agree Bob .. you need a separate will for assets in another country ...
I had both a UK and US lawyer advise that.....
I had my wife as main executor and two others in each country
if we died at the same time ...
Also ensure the executors are younger than yourself ..
or they may clog it before you and you need a fresh will or have to add
a codicill
I had both a UK and US lawyer advise that.....
I had my wife as main executor and two others in each country
if we died at the same time ...
Also ensure the executors are younger than yourself ..
or they may clog it before you and you need a fresh will or have to add
a codicill
I'm just visiting with all y'all Britons (how's my Southern coming?)
I am VERY surprised to hear about having wills in each country.
Even though now that I think about it for a minute, it does make sense!
Who keeps the will over there, then? I mean...
Once I write it here, then what? Who to send it to, to make it legal?
Boy, I knew this was going to be complicated *S*
Questions, questions, questions...
Mar 27th 2007, 6:46 pm
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Re: OT - Last Will and Testament
That would be Holland then, in my case *S*
I'm just visiting with all y'all Britons (how's my Southern coming?)
I am VERY surprised to hear about having wills in each country.
Even though now that I think about it for a minute, it does make sense!
Who keeps the will over there, then? I mean...
Once I write it here, then what? Who to send it to, to make it legal?
Boy, I knew this was going to be complicated *S*
Questions, questions, questions...
I'm just visiting with all y'all Britons (how's my Southern coming?)
I am VERY surprised to hear about having wills in each country.
Even though now that I think about it for a minute, it does make sense!
Who keeps the will over there, then? I mean...
Once I write it here, then what? Who to send it to, to make it legal?
Boy, I knew this was going to be complicated *S*
Questions, questions, questions...
I have mine here ...
Mar 27th 2007, 8:59 pm
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Re: OT - Last Will and Testament
I wouldn't know about holland...but I've got mine kept in my bank in blighty, £10 a year to keep bits and pieces in the branch safe, in event of me carping it, they know who to give it to, and I've told the missus and my mother that that's where it is kept...exec is a law firm, just in case the family solicitor bloke carps it or retires.
Mar 27th 2007, 11:54 pm
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Re: OT - Last Will and Testament
This was very popular in the middle ages. Indeed, that's how the church came into so much of its money! Personally, I wouldn't trust anyone associated with the church to carry out the duties of an executor.
Ian
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