Category Archives: Estate Planning and End of Life planning
You’re the director of a non-profit that operates an alternative school and runs programs for people with developmental disabilities when you get a call from someone you never met who says he plans to leave your organization his entire estate. Of course, you’ll meet with him and together you set a date. But there’s [...]
If doctors and families don’t talk about end-of-life care, the dying patient will endure more misery, physical distress and suffering as costs mounts up. At the end of life, denial comes at a price A team of investigators, lead by researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, interviewed 603 patients with advanced cancer. They [...]
A twenty-five-year battle over an estate ends. The “conspiracy to deny us our inheritance destroyed my family, broke my heart and left me with scars that I have painfully struggled with and have not fully overcome even now, after all these years,” Diana, 68, said in a recent affidavit. – Evelyn and Diana, who both [...]
Michael Jackson plans to have his body ‘plastinized’ by Dr. Death MICHAEL Jackson will achieve his dream of immortality by being stuffed with plastic by Dr Death. The King Of Pop, who calls himself Peter Pan, has had a string of cosmetic surgery ops to try to defy the ageing process. But he is now [...]
Suit says Teen was ‘killed’ for organs The parents of an 18-year-old who suffered a brain injury in a 2007 snowboarding accident say his doctors “intentionally killed” him to harvest his organs. In the lawsuit filed this week in the U.S. District Court of Western Pennsylvania, Michael and Teresa Jacobs claim that doctors “hastened” their [...]
There’s nothing wrong with 84-year-old Ed Koch, so it’s quite strange to hear he’s erected an already engraved tombstone for himself in a Manhattan cemetery. Ed’s Grave Situation The unadorned tombstone, planted firmly on a hill at Trinity Church Cemetery in Washington Heights, carries an inscription that hails his Jewish heritage, as well as his [...]
It’s rare to read in the news about a family that does the right thing and avoids all litigation Heath Ledger’s family give his millions to his two-year-old daughter Every penny of Heath Ledger’s fortune will go to his daughter, Matilda Rose, the dead star’s father has revealed. In Ledger’s will, which has been probated [...]
THE day will come, or may have already, when your children think of your money as theirs. Learning to Share Putting off discussion and then springing an unwelcome surprise in a will can poison the reservoir of family joy that parents want to bequeath to the next generation, resurrecting or exacerbating sibling rivalries, especially in [...]
He signed up as an organ donor when he was a cardinal. Pope Benedict carries organ donor card as “an act of love’. Pope Benedict XVI is a card-carrying organ donor, it emerged today. The disclosure that the pontiff is prepared to donate organs for transplants after his death follows a front page article in [...]
Body shop founder Anita Roddick gave away her fortune to charity and the tax man and left nothing to her daughters. She described leaving money to your family as “obscene” and cut her two daughters Sam and Justine out of her will in 2005 soon after making a fortune from the sale of The Body [...]
