Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for June 15, 2021

Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe…..

Here lies the body of Mary Meek. Her will was strong. But her won’t was weak.

Had a lawyer who kept placing a clause in there that gave them power to plunder….sorry, guide the disposition of assets. Yeah, no thanks.

Durable power of attorney is the way to go!

My mum did it and saved her sons a lot of bureaucratic grief!!

Relax, ‘Cosmo’, the lawyers in ‘Treetops’ aren’t as ‘sticky-fingered’ as the ‘money-grubbing’ ones in the real world ! ! ! !

Why complain? You can’t take “it” with you, you know.

My father’s estate lawyer scammed my sister and I out of thousands. I was a naive first-time executor, and he was a seasoned crook.

When we die it all goes to the Oregon Humane Society, no estate taxes to dilute the loot.

When I married my current wife, we both had to change our wills which was a complicated procedure – not because we had a lot of money or property to divide – but because the wills had to be written twice!

Even though the wills were pretty simple and straightforward, one set of wills had to be written in Spanish for the Ecuador courts and another set translated into English for the United States because the inheritance laws and tax codes differ in each country.

Vulture /lawyer, just saying.

Friggin’ attorneys.

I did mine on line. Had it witnessed by a couple friends and notarized by another one, all free of charge. I won’t be around to see whether it holds up. :)

Where there’s a will…..there’s a way.

You gotta have something to leave something.

There is legally only one thing you need a lawyer for is adoption. Anything else you can do pro se! At least that was the law in NY in the early 70’s

A little pet peeve here… people (family) who fight over what someone puts in their will. It’s THEIR money etc. They can do whatever they d*** please with it.