the will

hmonkey

do you know what your inheritance will be? if you do not know if your parents have a will, or if you are not aware of the details, please feel free to skip this poll because i will be okay without hearing your special snowflake answer.

GBCK

my folks gave us the vauge details when they gave us the $ from gramps @ thanksgiving.

My big sis is executor and things would basically be split between the 3 of us.

Big sis would ALSO be guardian for Buffy, so she has forbidden a car accident that takes out all 4 of us at once.

VarunaTT

Basically, my grandparents have put me into the place of my bio mother.  Which my aunt T is sure ot have a gigantic shit fit about.  Dad splits evenly between us (nothing to Aunt P, who is not biologically his child), mom has made me sole heir.  Aunt P is executor for them both.

My entire family is so complicated.

VarunaTT

HA!  no more cursing.

6fsn

I know my parents is split 4 ways evenly.  I know FIL's is split evenly, but he also subtracts for dollars owed.  DH is executor and has a list of what is owed (it's formal too).  Based on that I have a minimum idea.  I have no clue about MIL.

DixieNormous330

Pretty sure there is absolutely nothing. My sister and I will divide the jewelry. I know my ILs have a will, H is the executor but has no idea what's in it.

baconsmom

We just split everything evenly - money, property, whatever. I'm sure there will be some specific bequests, but we actually do get along, and there won't be much to worry about, so. 

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My mom's death will probably end up costing me money.

kerbohl

My parents have mentioned that they will split things evenly between siblings, but they haven't given number data, which is fine.  I hope that I don't find out what my inheritance is for a long, long time.  Splitting the jewelery with my sister should be interesting - neither me nor her wear a lot of jewelery. 

If my sister and her husband die, I know I get guardianship of my three nephews - better than inheritance, I suppose, but I'd really rather have my sister alive.

This is sort of a depressing topic!  What brings it up, OP? 

mrsconn23

mscalibride said:

My mom's death will probably end up costing me money.

I feel the same about my IL's.

Wzz

lol, cali. i recently asked my mom if she had life insurance to cover her funeral costs. i felt badly asking, but i also felt like i had to ask to make sure she had that covered. she's the type to just let us deal with it when the time comes, so i was shocked that she had this planned.

 

my grandmother left everything to one child so she wouldnt have to deal with that child's wrath, and figured they'd deal with it all after she died. now, no one speaks because things got veeerrryyyy ugly.

PirateBarbie

I only know that i'm the executor for my parents, no idea on the $$ amount/property, but assuming it would be split more or less evenly. 

i regularly (kiddingly) tell my mom to put post-its on her jewelry for me, when she gets something I like. 

I know my ILs will split their estate evenly between their 4 kids - even though FIL was the sole person listed on his parents' will, he still split it 50/50 with his sister - he just feels it's the right thing to do. DK and I know nothing beyond that. 

NOLABridesmaid

I keep trying to get my mom to make one, and it hasn't happened yet. She does have life insurance and has told me where the important papers are.

 

That's all I got.

GBCK

when my grandma passed, my sisters and I divvied things w/ sentimental value amoungst ourselves w/o any real oversight--I think we'll be able to do that w/ my parent's stuff too.

There's only 1 family heirloom we might debate and, unless Buffy has some cousins or siblings, the eventuality that it'll be hers is pretty straightforward and makes me more OK w/ not having it.

the Mr's parents might be more of a nightmare.  There's a continuum between "good with money/paranoid cheapskate" and "bad with money/clueless".  One sibling is at each end...

the "oh, look, we have stockpiles of precious metals in the basement because it's an investment--it's right next to the stockpile of ammo and canned goods" may be coloring my opinion.