On this last day of the year, let’s talk a little about your last Will and Testament. After all, this is “the year got old in a hurry,” and none of us are getting any younger.
Wiki says: “Probate is the legal process of administering the estate of a deceased person by resolving all claims and distributing the deceased person’s property under the valid will.”
Hmm… sounds like something best left to discuss with a lawyer. Fortunately, The Estate Planning Law Offices of David A. Bernstein are offering two FREE Living Trust Seminar this Thursday, January 7, 2009 (10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Follow links and call for reservations).
In their seminars, professionals will teach you about “The New 2010 DEATH TAX LAW,” and:
* Why a Will requires a probate
*Who can sign for you if your are incapacitated
*What will happen if you can’t make medical decisions
* How the IRS calculates the death tax, and
* If a Living Trust is right for you
If a Living Trust is not right for you, you’ll get a bounty of great information otherwise, plus free parking and refreshments and a free consultation/Estate Organizer ($400 value).
{NOTE: Hmm… Thinking of refreshments…
Just yesterday, I had a conversation about “funeral food.” Hearing the term–for the first time–I could not help but ask what, exactly, funeral food is? How does it differ from any other food? Is it bad? Does it taste like death and make people more melancholy (you know, to help people that aren’t really distraught–but just there for the food–keep up appearances)? The answer I got: Yes. Apparently it does.
On Cooks.com, there were 18 entries with the word FUNERAL in them. Seriously. From Funeral Potatoes to Funeral Pie to Funeral Beans.
My favorite tidbit: The first step in Funeral Pie is to wash and soak raisins. Poor raisins. They get a bad enough rap as it is, then to be left to soak and bloat up like a litter of baby boars washed down the mountainside after a heavy rain… all before being stuck in Funeral Pie. PAU NOTE}
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