Bizarre Things Found In Wills (Lawyer Stories r/AskReddit)

lawyers who read wills to families what is the most interesting bizarre offensive surprising thing you have had to read out loud to my wife I leave her lover and the knowledge that I was never the full she thought me to my son I leave the pleasure of working for a living for 25 years he thought the pleasure was all mine best dis ever was in my wills and trusts book in law school as an example of people talking crap in their wills you're supposed to discourage them as lawyers from doing so that's so classy though a friend of mine was adopted at Birth when her mom died the will gave half the estate to her two natural daughters my friend got nothing WTF that was vindictive beyond belief it's like saying yet I raised you but you were never truly my child best will story I personally know of the father had a valuable antique grandfather clock he also had two daughters his solution if I die on an even day daughter a gets the clock an odd day and daughter B gets it the daughter who did not get the clock got an equivalent cash award based on the value of the clock I know of the event because I had to service the clock several times over the years daughter B has a slightly better chance of getting the clock we had the client itemized his rock collection in his will including directions that certain rocks be deposited in certain rivers across Canada I hope he was a geology prof. and did it just to Frick with future grad students working on their theses my father-in-law was an accountant for some rather wealthy people one of them was asking him to assist with writing up his will worth millions the final audition he suggested was that if the children contested it they get nothing they contested it for years it must be a bad feeling knowing you raised that sort of kids I literally cannot imagine fighting with my sister over money she has a hard time letting me pick up like every fourth restaurant shake we had the client who was a widowed farmer who owned several heavy equipment caterpillar trucks et Cie he had two sons who were already working with him at the farm and a daughter who was working in the city he willed the heavy equipment to the daughter when asked why since these equipment were essential to the farm he said that the farm was to go his kids equally but his girl needed to know he always wanted her to join their venture and dispel her notions of alienation because she was a girl this is weird and sweet it's very rare to read a will out loud that's mostly in the movies normally I just make extra copies and pass them out to whoever in the family wants to read it speaking as an actual estate attorney thank you for pointing out that this is basically a Hollywood myth if I had a dollar for the number of people who call me wanting to sue because there was never a reading of the will lawyer here I once a man did a will for a doctor in which he disinherited his son by removing everything he had intended to bequeath and replacing it with a manure spreader I didn't ask any questions because changing your will is an easy thing to do but one day that doctor will die and his son will have essentially be told to eat crap I was working as a legal secretary and had to leave someone's Katz to various people fine but I also had to leave money in the cat's name to various organizations one of them was named mr. Bobo I enjoyed it thoroughly my maternal grandpa was wealthy he divorced my maternal grandma remarried and promptly dropped dead of a heart attack he was only 48 and had no will so everything went to his new wife my mom's stepmother she was actually really nice and was planning on making sure that everything was fair till she died in a car accident six months later she was a widow herself prior to marrying ground Paran had an orphaned fifteen-year-old son from the previous marriage who got everything my mom and her siblings had to go to the auction at their childhood home and buy back as much of their heirlooms and memories as they could afford and truthfully still some of what they couldn't kind of reminds me of the story of the guy who meet a bombshell girl in a bar he said My father is 98 years old and is a billionaire he will be dead within a month we should get married the next day she became his stepmother tons one client left a specific gifts of 10k dollars to one son and left him out of the post ripes division of the residual estate which was sizable at the time the will was drafted with this was intended as a serious disinheritance which he apparently talked about all the time to make the disfavored son feel bad however by the time he died he had a serious reversal of fortune and his estate was about 10k dollars so he effectively disinherited the good children and left the blacksheep everything the bad kid appeared very poor compared to the others and the look of grateful surprise on the poor kids face was almost as priceless as the shock on the others who thought they were getting rich I heard this from another lawyer rich old lady leaves her entire sizable estate in a trust for the care and maintenance of her dog as long as the dog shall live on the dog's death the trust paid out in full to the son apparently the Sun had Rover put down the day after the funeral and presented a demand to the trustee the very next day for the trust payout she should have seen that one coming the first one sounds kind of cool the second one is just awful I know I know no lawyer here but I had to share a woman came in after her mother's funeral with some correspondence from the company I work for insurance she was worried there was a bill she needed to pay and was coming to tell us her mom had died she just looked so tired and we got to talking while I looked up the policy to close it out she shared that in the last few years her mom had slipped into dementia and she single-handedly took care of her how she missed her but just was run ragged and she hadn't taken a vacation in forever I realized what she had was not a health policy it was a life insurance policy naming the daughter as the beneficiary for about 50 K I told her and she just started crying it made me cry and I got up and hugged her and sort of just held her while she cried she pulled away and said I have no idea what she left that for everything's been paid for I said this might be her telling you to go on that vacation and relax it was so touching and she had no idea that the policy existed I was expecting something opposite of this happening thanks for sharing this made my evening my estate planning professor told us about a guy who had two families neither of which knew about the other until it was time to read the will this wasn't like a love child mistress type scenario both were nuclear multi kid families both families showed up for what had to be one of the most awkward will reading in history I don't really know how he pulled it off other than that he was away on business frequently I know you're looking for lawyers and whatnot but here have my mediocre will story anyway my great grandmother left her daughter just one dollar and not a single penny more so help me God this was before I was born it's my grandmother not the daughter with the dollar said that when they all read the will her sister had a full-blown temper tantrum and no one heard from her since I guess she had it coming in olden days it used to be typical to bequeath $1.00 so that if challenged the judge saw that they were not forgotten and purposefully meant to not get more if a close family member or loved one got nothing they would often challenge they were forgotten might not be true in this case but something I remember studying in my trusts and estates class in law school we read a case about a man who left everything to his wife but only if she got his body stuffed and left it on the living room couch forever luckily for her the Court invalidated that part of the husband's will if I recall correctly part of the reasoning was that it would make it impossible for her to date remarry if she had her husband's creepy dead body glaring at anyone who came to see her my grandfather a Vietnam War veteran suffered from PTSD it got worse in his later years and he would often isolate himself from the rest of the family often hiding out in his bedroom when visitors were over my grandmother would often tell us stories about how he had inherited a significant amount of money from his father way back when she said that in their younger years he often spent his inheritance on luxurious dates and trips after returning from war he spent the remaining money on a house in which he and my grandmother settled and raised their children fast forward to his death couple months back and we found out he had written the will even my grandmother didn't know about it we all had assumed he wouldn't have much to leave since most of the money he had saved from his time in the military was going towards taking care of him as he was placed in a care facility as his PTSD worsened his will told of a warehouse in Township Michigan that held a large collection of vintage cars he said that the warehouse was passed down from his father and he had all the documents to prove that he was the owner of some type of warehouse his will estimated that the cars be worth an excess of two million dollars total the money from his collection would be split between his four children we had no idea this collection ever existed my father and his three brothers had all grown up in Plano Texas none of us had ever been to Michigan before even our mother couldn't recall a time of our father ever having even gone to visit Michigan after a long debate my father and I the only ones who could manage to find some time off from work agreed to fly out to Michigan to see this collection firsthand after a few thousand dollars spent on plane tickets hotels Act we finally arrived at the warehouse my grandfather owned it was a rundown warehouse but it was tucked away within a compound of other warehouses that seemed to be otherwise well taken care off finally code in hand my father punched the numbers into the keypad in the giant door began to rise what was inside was beyond words there was absolutely nothing besides a few homeless people that managed to sneak in through a hole in the corrugated metal around back there was no car collection we were able to contact a few owners of the neighboring warehouses and to their knowledge no one and nothing had ever been inside all those warehouses in the years they had been there to this day we don't know what happened we all just assumed that the PTSD caused him to create some kind of fantasy in his mind that maybe he purchased the warehouse believing it was a safe house for him if he ever needed to get out of Plano maybe there were cars there years before and they were all stolen my grandfather hated his neighbor they lived next to each other for 20 plus years I remember well my grandfather raging at every opportunity about this guy we never saw them speak to each other in grandpa's well he left the guy $10 K a car and golf clubs we were dumbstruck turns out they were good buddies from the Army when they coincidentally bought homes next to each other they decided to play a long scam with both their families and they actually played golf together to 3x per week and had a monthly poker game for yours too my daughter Ann who created my beautiful granddaughter Jane and her dear fourth husband John who laid hands on my Jane I leave $1 you money-grubbing bastards to Jane I leave all of my monetary assets save $5,000 and my best gun which I'll leave to my son Bill on the condition and he beats John bloody during the time between my funeral and my burial Jane bail your uncle out of jail please other than names this is the exact wording of a great uncle's will part of it anyway at age 9 Jean told her mother that John had molested her and her mother told her she deserved it for being of s so great uncle took jean in' and raised her and his two kids got exactly what it says his son also got a truck and technically a house although he only kept it until Jean was a legal adult and could afford the tax on it bill got full custody of Jane when his father died and he put every penny of her money into a trust fund to mature when she was 25 because he felt like his sister would try to get the money he was right and in case anyone wondered yes bill got his five grand he didn't get arrested though because John had a warrant on him so they didn't dare call the cops bill did kindly inform the police of his whereabouts a few weeks later that is beautiful something about revenge from beyond the grave or at least on the way to it not a lawyer but sawed off a sad story when my dad's mother died her will stipulated that everything was to be liquidated and the money distributed equally between her children and grandchildren and fine but literally everything had to be sold there were family heirlooms jewelry things my grandfather Hunter had made so many sentimental family things like my father and his siblings badly wanted but it all had to be sold they all went to the auction to try to buy some of the more sentimental items but weren't always successful it was heartbreaking and I'm not sure what made my grandmother think it would be a good idea nobody wanted the money they wanted her wedding ring and the clocks my grandfather had made in all that it was heartbreaking and I'm not sure what made my grandmother think it would be a good idea nobody wanted the money they wanted her wedding ring in the clocks my grandfather had made in all that most likely she didn't want her family fighting over her belongings I used to work for an accountant and we used to make wills as well an old man probably around 70 left all his money to his mistress while his wife only got the goldfish I had to tell him that if his wife contested it she would most definitely win he said he didn't care goldfish the estate that smiles back not me but my friend's father's father died and he said when the guy reviewed the will with his lawyer and his sister it said to give 100% of the assets to his sister he said he had no idea why his father did that he wasn't on bad terms or anything it was shocking to him the sister didn't share anything with him either and they were on pretty good terms before that when my great-uncle died he left his beloved dog to his longtime girlfriend all of his money went into a pet trust for said dog which turned out to be quite a large sum of money his two kids got nothing as far as I know he didn't have a bad relationship with them or anything he just filled the world of his little dog one summer I worked as an administrative assistants to a lawyer who worked in Wills and estates most of it was the usual petty arguing about percentages of money but one couple was deeply concerned about which of their children would receive the urn with the ashes of the family's long deceased cat wouldn't want to play favorites one of my college buddies dad died from cancer in our second year it wasn't a sudden death he had been battling it for a couple years when my friend came back to school he casually mentioned that his dad left him and his sister $7 in each turns out his dad had hit the lottery before my friend was born invested put all the money away to help pay for college high school his mom got a nice chunk of change also he grew up thinking they were just ordinary middle-class family we had a glorious third and fourth year of college thanks to my loaded friend oh dear my first not me but a friend post someone had left an entire golf course that he owned and managed in secret to his son they were avid golfers but always went to another course I still don't know why someone would lie about downing a golf course some people like surprises I'd be thrilled if my dad had been hiding a golf course from me for all these years as a big reveal when he died reading all of this I hope that my parents spend all their money while they are alive so me and my family never have to fight over anything it's so not worth it my will has something unusual story time ice at my wife down to have the talk because I was getting ready to deploy to Iraq this was during the incredible sectarian violence and I wanted to make sure she knew everything to do in case I died she's never serious ever but I wanted her to be serious for this discussion because it was damned important I get through telling her all about it and want to know if she has questions yet so the life insurance how does that work she says I don't really know baby what do you mean she answers well do they just put the money in there when look she's not trying to be an butthole right it's not like she's just dying for the money she wants to know the logistics of it I'm sitting here thinking when she says so do they put in my bank account or do they give you one of those big checks when you win the lottery and she holds her hands up like she's holding a huge check laughter ensues I have it written into the wall that if I'm Kia I want the 400 K dollars to be given to her with a gigantic lottery check base photo brings several folks over should like the paparazzi as she stands on a stage and do it lol not exactly a reading of the will story but in the same realm when I was like 20 my dad told me that when he died I would be getting a chunk of money not millions but enough to do something good with years later he and my mom separated he met a new woman and got married after talking to my brother and sister we were all worried that she would change his will or get him to change it in favor of her kids we agreed that we didn't want money but just wanted any final wishes to be Honnold the money couldn't hurt though sadly after that he got cancer and died two years ago after he died my siblings and I agreed to just accept however his widow divided anything she made sure things went where he had decided my percentage was smaller because he had added her and her children in the two years since he passed she hasn't talked to us much she calls for holidays and stuff she tries but she is just kinda awkward she's also sent large sums of money on two occasions because she sold some land he owned she has shown me and my siblings that there are still good people sure she might have kept most of the money but she could have kept all of the money and we would never have known you should call her and tell her that she might be distant and awkward but hearing from you that her kindness and honesty is noticeable and appreciate it might make her feel pretty dang good about herself and how she's handled things my father is going to read his will to us before he dies presuming he's not taken suddenly imagine Christmas but depressing when I was 16 my dad wrote me out of his will and then hung himself in the garage it was few months after my older brother had died in a car wreck funny thing is we always got along I was then kicked out of the house by his wife without a single thing that was mine it was on Christmas Eve so I went to my mom's for a night and when I came back to my dad's the locks were changed not a single shirt not a shoe not a sock nothing but the cloths on my back and the change in my pocket when I was a clerk in law school at the State Court of Appeals the adult children of a rich woman tried to invalidate the will basically the woman was worth about 8 million dollars and all the children were working professionals earning six or seven figures well the woman had used the same hairdresser for multiple years and left a considerable amount in a trust for the hairdressers children's education the remainder of the estate who has given to different charities basically the kids were mad they didn't get a cut if it comes up like if you're wealthy leaving $1,000 to each kid will make it a lot more difficult to invalidate but leave them nothing and they can create a lot of doubt and questions one of my former bosses was getting up an agent had no children one day we were discussing family history and he mentioned how he still had the old family by Bohr his grandparents brought over from Germany with the whole family tree handwritten into it which I thought was an amazing thing to have but he went on to lament that when he died it was going to have to go to his ungrateful good Phil nothing nice since the old rules of inheritance said she should get it even though he knew she didn't care a thing about the family history several of us involved in the discussion tried to convince him that there had to be some other family member that would give it the respect it deserved or barring that a Historical Society that would know what to do with it but he would have none of it since that just isn't the way it is done years later I thought of this while attending his funeral and tried to figure out who was that niece maybe in hopes of grouching the subjects with her but never could I still wonder about it sometimes and hope for his sake that it ended up in good hands like this video and this good boy will play you a nice song if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video or don't either way 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