Another Kennedy May Get the Will Right
We recently updated our wills. It’s kind of like flossing your teeth or doing maintenance on your furnace: it’s no fun and nobody gives you kudos, but you do it, anyway. Because of changing family circumstances, we altered a few things about what would happen to our kids in the event of our deaths. It felt good to be so diligent.
Comes now a friend with a copy of a Trusts and Estates magazine (there’s some fine poolside reading for you!), February 2007 issue. It indicates that Robert F. Kennedy died with a badly-outdated will and made no charitable bequests. That’s amazing, since he was the U.S. Attorney General – the nation’s top lawyer.
Bobby Kennedy’s assassination was in 1968, but his will was dated 1953. It named older brother John F. Kennedy as the co-executor, co-trustee and successor guardian for Bobby’s minor children, even though JFK was assassinated five years before Bobby was.
Even though it’s very sad that their brother, Massachusetts Sen. Teddy Kennedy, has been diagnosed with a very tough brain tumor, here’s hoping he can leave a better legal legacy than that.
Comes now a friend with a copy of a Trusts and Estates magazine (there’s some fine poolside reading for you!), February 2007 issue. It indicates that Robert F. Kennedy died with a badly-outdated will and made no charitable bequests. That’s amazing, since he was the U.S. Attorney General – the nation’s top lawyer.
Bobby Kennedy’s assassination was in 1968, but his will was dated 1953. It named older brother John F. Kennedy as the co-executor, co-trustee and successor guardian for Bobby’s minor children, even though JFK was assassinated five years before Bobby was.
Even though it’s very sad that their brother, Massachusetts Sen. Teddy Kennedy, has been diagnosed with a very tough brain tumor, here’s hoping he can leave a better legal legacy than that.
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PRAYER REQUEST: We praise You and thank You, Lord, that Cindy passed the math part of her teacher certification exam, and is now deemed totally ready to go! Thank You for making her such a determined, dedicated and decent teacher, and for planting her in the “field” of the school where she has found a job for next year. Hallelujah! May both she and her future pupils be blessed. (Jeremiah 32:41)
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