Lawyers, What Was The Most Shocking WIll You Had To Read To A Family?

lawyers who read wills to families what is the most interesting bizarre offensive surprising thing you have had to read out loud 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 grand parkway 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 co-incidentally bought homes next to each other they decided to play a long scam with both their families they actually played golf together 2-3 x per week and had a monthly poker game for years that's an extremely long con i like your grandpa's style to my daughter anne who created my beautiful granddaughter jane and her dear fourth husband john who laid hands on my jane i leave one dollar you money grubbing bastards to jane i'll leave all of my monetary assets save five thousand dollars and my best gun which i'll leave to my son bill on the condition that 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 nine jean told her mother that jon had physically shamed 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 jon 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 sort of 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 fine but literally everything had to be sold there were family heirlooms jewelry things my grandfather a carpenter had made so many sentimental family things that 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 and 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 and the clocks my grandfather had made and 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 just to clear up confusion i'm for australia not usa i thought it was in there but it wasn't 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's 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 thought the world of his little dog i'm always confounded by stories like that one summer i worked as an administrative assistant 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 buddha's 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 seven dollars million 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 he did know his dad won the lottery but it was never mentioned to him or his sister that it was a lot of money he grew up thinking they were just ordinary middle-class family i think that was his entire motivation wanting nothing but not raising a bunch of entitled little shoots 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 owning 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 my will has something unusual story time i sat 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 yeah 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 in but all 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 as she holds her hands up like she's holding a huge check laughter ensues i have it written into the wool that if i'm here i want the 400k dollars to be given to her with a gigantic lottery check have base photo bring several folks over shoot like the paparazzi as she stands on a stage and do it lol glad you made it back and it sound like you two have an awesome dynamic not exactly a reading of the war 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 honored 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 this much she calls for holidays and stuff she tries but she is just kind of 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 appreciated might make her feel pretty dang good about herself and how she's handled things my father's going to read his will to us before he dies presuming he's not taken suddenly imagine christmas but depressing so that's why you hate santa 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 eight 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 hairdresser's children's education the remainder of the estate was given to different charities basically the kids were mad they didn't get a cut how it turned out truth is i don't know we reminded on some procedural issues and i never followed up on it if it comes up like if you're wealthy leaving one thousand dollars to each kid will make it a lot more difficult to invalidate leave them nothing and they can create a lot of doubt and questions one of my former bosses was getting up in age and had no children one day we were discussing family history and he mentioned how he still had the old family bible his grandparents brought over from germany with the whole family tree hand written into it which i thought was an amazing thing to have but he went on to lament that when he died he was going to have to go to his ungrateful good for nothingness since the old rules of inherit and 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 broaching 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 lawyer here not a thing with reading the will just my favorite testator dying guy wanted to leave bequests to pretty much everybody he had known who was still living in three countries one percent to this guy two percent to that lady then he kept changing his mind about one beneficiary or the other which required the development of a spreadsheet to recalculate all the other bequests whenever he will change that guy's gift from one percent to 1.5 percent unfortunately for sanity it was a pot of cash if he had changed physical bequests half my spoons to my cousin lydia the other half no 5 8 we would have had to kill him there is one famous device in a wolf from new york a rich man left everything to his wife provided she remarried the will supposedly had the explanation that the testator put this condition on the will because he wanted to make sure at least one person truly mourned his death i bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately then there will be at least one man to regret my death heinrich heiner 1797-18 german poet journalist and literary critic said on his deathbed not in his will i think title examiner here i once read all where the dissident left his presumably gay son the 12 feet of rope in my tool shed so the f can do us all a favor and hang himself his words not mine there are some truly terrible people in this world what a horrific man an ancestor of mine in the rural uk in the 1700s died and left his farm and everything to his nephew no children with his surviving wife only getting the second best bed and to provision her to receive three pounds of butter per week for the rest of her life we thought this was incredibly mean but we wonder whether this butter was meant as an income i mean who can eat three pounds of butter on behalf of my dad here he one time had a woman leave millions of dollars to three stray cats that she had been feeding and he had to go catch them and put them in crates to be shipped to texas where they live a life of luxury in a cat resort another guy had a safety deposit box that was massive like the size of a small dresser inside it was filled with coins that they had to count turns out it was several hundred thousand dollars worth of coins me and my wife went to a lawyer to have our wills drafted the lawyer told us of a client he had that had a great deal of money his kids were fighting over it before he was dead the man liked the monkey exhibit in the local zoo he liked to just watch them all the time when he died the lawyer had to tell his family he willed all of his money and estate to the zoo for the monkey exhibits he now has a bench dedicated to his honor at one of the local zoos he said they were livid and tried to fight lesson is don't be petty and greedy love your family unconditionally you know how a bench dead over is to his honor can you please take another shot at this sentence i'm actually really interested in this story and would like to know what he ha no a bench dead of ovaries in his honor years ago worked in a retirement community older man we knew as gay developer late a late-in-life relationship and moved into the community with his gay lover he was a career vet multiple honors a wall of medals he was also a bit of in butthole most days but he had moments over a meal his stories were fantastic his children over three years never once visited him he had a heart attack and knew he was going to die his children showed up but demanded his lover leave for visits in his will he left everything to his lover and his love as one child from a former marriage he wrote a long note about his kid's hypocrisy of not visiting and their attitudes toward his lover he left each of his two kids a pail of coal ash to be deducted from his estate had his estate pay for his lover's plot to be next to him and his wife and in his long letter that his kids if they visited him and his death would be reminded of why they didn't visit why he was alive it was frankly awesome hearing his kids blow up about it my sister spent a couple years working for a long-standing organization in philly that's been accepting bequeathement since the late 18th century her job was to help organize the various trusts they had to administer as well as going around advising people not to do things like this and just leave them a lump sum people had a habit of leaving them an annual trust that five dollars a year was a princely sum in 1813 but by now it's just a complete nuisance or of leaving them ridiculously specific things to do every year the worst example i remember i'm a little fuzzy on the details was a woman who left funds to purchase books for school children in liberia the problem is her funds now don't buy more than a couple books and she left instructions for someone to deliver the books not to ship them a delivery driver is someone colon three when my grandparents on my mother's side were dying of cancer my uncle black sheep piece of crap of the family who i've never met thank god wanted to know what he was getting from the inheritance when they died not how's mom and dad or what can i do to help my grandparents being the people they were was still going to give him an inheritance after all the freaked up things he did to them but my mum the power of attorney convinced them that they shouldn't be manipulated by him anymore they ended up writing him an email back telling him that he wouldn't be included in the will anymore he ended up threatening to burn their house down my house down killing me and my family etc for betraying him and you know what my grandparents did they ended up including him in the world and sending him exactly one penny in check form by mail that was the last time i have heard from him since i work for a brokerage firm and i often deal with account beneficiaries we had a client leave his entire account to a stripper after the client died his wife discovered her husband had left his life savings to jean sparkles smith she was p really p lawyer here we normally don't actually do a reading of the will here like they do in the movies it's much more boring we just fire up the probate and send notice to all the heirs the weirdest one i saw was a guy that was worth about two million dollars who left my car jacket and one dollar to my son i hope it keeps him warm when he winds up sleeping under a bridge the kid had a drug issue i also had someone leave an antique commode to one of his kids yes he considered an elderly toilet to be a family heirloom the guy was actually pretty excited to get the toilet it was the last thing they had left to remember their grandma by i crap you not pun intended my parents have started their death cleanup those were my brother's words every time we visit they are asking us if there is something that they have that we want and if so for us to take it they don't call it a death cleanup but i have to applaud my little brother that's what it feels like and he called it on them i'm refusing to participate i always say no and my little brother is the most honest altruistic person you can ever meet so he does too but this christmas i was in the garage with my dad and i saw this wooden model boat that i had never seen before it was a beautiful painted foot and a half boat that my dad had made in carpentry class or whatever you call it in english when he was in school the mast was broken it had been somewhere at our summer house as we say in sweden and i had never seen it it was actually that house he grew up in but that's a different story at least as far as i can remember right now my little brother helps out there a lot i bet they stumbled across it and they saw it and my little brother was as emotional about the thing as i was since it had been something our dad made when he was younger than either of us i understand if he said yes if my dad said why don't you take it the point of my story is that i have a little brother that can't lie has proven to be as altruistic as anyone comes but for a second i turned into surin because of something my dad wanted to give him a friend had two sisters when their father passed away their mom had died in their childhood anyway years go by and the eldest daughter is the only one who keeps in contact with the father for various reasons dude was an abusive dong played favorites all of that crap older sister was obviously the favorite as she got everything the other daughter and son my friend got one dollar a piece oldest sister could have been a dong about it but decided to be pro status they all sat down to dinner on a night and big sister was like listen dad left me all of this it was a pretty sizable amount of money she could have taken it and lived comfortably without working till the day she died maybe definitely if she managed the money proper she sat down with her little brother and sister and was like three ways even deal end of it you all would think that you would do the same for your brother sister best friend whatever you'd be surprised what people are really like when money is involved even a small amount of it fricked up not in this case though i am not a lawyer but i am deputy public administrator and we find wills often we deal with individuals who died without any known family or the family is estranged and we have to locate them one of the wills i read said no freaking lawyers in the text and another one stated i would like crack powder stuffed in my ears and cremated i'm a trust attorney i can't tell you how many times the surviving spouse from a blended marriage cuts out the step kids they always try to justify it to me even though i really don't care i'm not there to judge los angeles residents are especially concerned about their pets i've written trust where the pets inherit more than the kids it's always awkward when i have to tell a child they were disinherited no easy way to tell a person that not a lawyer but an estate planning paralegal for many years i've read drafted or executed thousands of wills and trusts with clients my first nitpicky comment is that the common belief that lawyers actually assemble the whole family and hold a reading of the will is entirely a construct of tv you would never sit there and just read a will to people it's mostly a bunch of legalese about bonds and payment of taxes and the powers of the executor only a very small portion of the will actually pertains to distributions and in many cases it's just a paragraph stating that everything goes to the spouse if living otherwise equally to the kids or to the trust which then says it all goes to spouse then kids believe it or not they are usually pretty mundane when strings are attached it's usually just parents trying to make sure their kids go to college or they get a smaller distribution or just have to wait longer to get their money people who don't have kids usually name about two dozen beneficiaries which is cumbersome and annoying especially since a lot of times they don't even have much money to divide people with kids almost always just leave the money to them equally probably the most freaked up thing i've seen is a couple different clients who included provisions to disinherit kids and grandkids if they married a black person but that's their prerogative and we'll serve them professionally but we tended not to get too cozy or chatty at those signings unlike with many of the nice clients with whom we would become friendly just get him in get him out in those cases i'm not a lawyer but my family has an odd story involving a will several generations back a woman along with her brothers and our family inherited a huge sum of money from her father oil money in oklahoma at the time women were allowed to inherit property assets if single but all assets would have been transferred to her husband if she married she wasn't too happy about the situation and in protest never took her husband she had a few friends over the course of her life and lived a very comfortable life until dying of old age at which time her estate was divided amongst all of the female descendants in the family tl dnr my great great great aunt of something was a bad but feminist bee if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music] so bye for now

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Published: Fri Aug 07 2020