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Wills With An Exceptional Twist

by OurChapters on Oct.30, 2009, under OurChapters

Your Best wills online  is written to help your family sort out the disposal of your estate when you’ve died. Whilst yours may be simple, here are one or two unusual ones.

Will’s With A Difference
It seems prudent to make a will. All of us understand this, but actually doing it seems such a inconvenience.  How much thought went in these “wills with a difference”?

Even the legendary magician and escape artist, Harry Houdini, couldn’t trick death. Having died from a ruptured appendix, one of his biggest shocks came with the reading of his will. His magic supplys went to his former partner Theodore, who was also his brother. His conjuring powers failed on the next item – his ample array of scrolls on magic and the occult. He left these to the American Society for Psychical Research, but only on the term that the research officer J Malcolm Bird, who also was the editor of their journal, resigned. They refused the terms the collection was given to the Library of Congress.

The stage rabbits that he employed in his act vacated their hats and were divided around the kids of friends. Continuing the unusual style, his left his spouse 10 words, which was a secret code, with the avowal that he would use these words to contact her from the afterlife. Every year for 10 years, following his death, she dutifully held séances, but Harry never made contact.

Rock and blues singer Janis Lyn Joplin had a short but notable career. She made many rock classics and four albums, including “To Love Somebody” and “Me and Bobby McGee”. After years of substance abuse, she died from an overdose, aged 27. Two days prior to her demise in 1970 her cheapest wills      the figure of $2,500 to fund an all night party at her favourite pub so that her mates could “get blasted after I’m gone.” It must have been some wake – that was a large amount of money back in 1970.

We’ve all heard of people that, randomly, donate all their estate to the cats’ home, much to the disbelief of their relatives. Many family feuds begin when a will is read. As long as the person who made the will is of sound mind and not under duress, there is often little that can be done to object to such a decision.

Eccentricities aside, if you pass on without writing a will, the people whom you would want to inherit wont necessarily be the ones that do so. You might have a partner of several years, but if you’re not married or in a legal partnership, he or she won’t receive your money, heedless of your intentions and assurances. This can be sad when it’s not clearly stated and can cause devastating financial results.

The current method to get your will started is to go online and find a cheaper wills      . However simple your wishes are, it’s best to have the professionals to write it for you and you can be assured that you’re leaving things exactly how you would wish them to be.


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