OR

the kids enlist into an ROTC program or similar...
They will then get pais to study, which ain't bad if you think about it...

IF you want to stay away from the heat in case of a war / posting to a Combat Area, just graduate and acquire skills which will keep you out of trouble.

That's the way it works in Europe.

So!,... getting back to the basis of this thread,....

It appears that generally one spouse can NOT deny the surviving spouse everything.  If the will so states, the will is nullified, and the estate is split up according to that state's probate procedures.

I wonder which of these wills would be found reasonable by most courts:
1. The surviving spouse gets nothing, and the kids get the all of the $500,000.
2. The surviving spouse gets $100, and the kids get $499,900.
3. The surviving spouse and the kids split it evenly.
4. The surviving spouse gets $499,000 and the kids split up $1,000.
5. The entire half million goes to a nephew, disowning spouse and kids.
6. The entire half million goes to a charity, disowning spouse and kids.
7. The surviving spouse gets $10,000, two of the three kids each get $10,000, and the remaining kid gets $470,000.

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 08/27/11 at 18:32:25:


Probably.

How, then does that relate to the way the male gets hosed in a divorce?  My wife never worked, and the kids lived at home for maybe a third of our 43 years of wedded bliss, but if we decided to split up, I'd be living in a dinky apartment eating vienna sausage, still paying for all her medical bills, and putting the RYCA CS-1 on craigslist.

I know that if I croak first, in Wa my wife would have gotten everything. Period, end of story, that is how it works there. Ditto if she went first. Community property state.

Here in TN it is kinda peculiar. Holographic wills were legally recognized until a couple years ago. That means handwritten, no attorney necessary. Now you need a will or trust paperwork on file with the county clerk's office. I know my father in law set up both, leaving everything but a few CDs for the grandkids and a raggedy old sail boat to my wife. We get the rest, 54 acres of jungle, a Katrina kablooied house in MS, an 1841 plantation manor house (tinder box) and a bunch of worn out farm equipment.

His oldest son (and name sake) gets the raggedy rotten full of water and covered over in wild roses sailboat, but only if he comes to get it. If not, we're stuck with it too.

Don't upset your parents by marrying the wrong woman, it will come back to haunt you...

Plus bigger tomatoes.

"Take her to Aruba for a vacation."

Good one Bill.

If I hadn't told a LtCol to go F*** himself, the Army would have paid for 3 years of my college. Only scholarship I had.

Did the same thing when I was active duty in the Navy and got tossed out. Three months of inpatient rehab my a$$, f-u.

I have authority issues...