Fun Facts About Estate Planning

FUN FACTS ABOUT ESTATE PLANNING LIVING WILLS, WHICH ALLOW PEOPLE TO CONTROL THEIR END-OF-LIFE TREATMENT, ARE A RECENT ESTATE PLANNING MECHANISM. CALIFORNIA BECAME THE FIRST STATE TO ALLOW LIVING WILLS IN SEPTEMBER 1976. THE "WILL OF UAH" IS THE OLDEST KNOWN WILL IN EXISTENCE, AND IT WAS FOUND IN A TOMB IN EGYPT. IT DATES BACK TO 2548 BC, AND LEAVES ALL PROPERTY TO HIS WIFE, TETA. POWER OP ATTONERY, HISTORIANS FOUND A POWER OF ATTORNEY FROM 561 BC MESOPOTAMIA THE SHORTEST KN OWN WILLS ARE ONLY THREE WORDS LONG, READING, "ALL TO SON" | AND |"ALL TO WIFE." THE LONGEST WILL EVER PROBATED WAS 1,066 PAGES AND 95,940 WORDS. AN ENGLISH WOMAN, FREDERICA EVELYN STILWELL COOK, HOLDS THIS RECORD. A RECENT STUDY INDICATES THAT APPROXIMATELY 11% OF BRITONS HAVE THEIR INTERNET PASSWORDS IN THEIR LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. FAMOUS AMERICANS WHO HAVE DIED WITHOUT A WILL INCLUDE: SONNY B ONO, KURT COBAIN, JOHN DENVER, CHRIS FARLEY, HOWARD HUGHES, AND MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Chris Farley Sonny Bono IN 1829, JAMES SMITHSON CREATED THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION THROUGH A BEQUEST IN HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. Robert L. Shepard Professional Law Corporation passare.com TM Sources Twitter @Passareinc http://wall-arm.ca/2012/05/fun-facts Facebook facebook.com/passareinc http://www.grandrapids.org/estate-planning-facts-fiction Tumblr passareinc.tumblr.com http://blogs.lawyers.com/2012/11/trivia-time-little-known-facts-about-estate-planning/ http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/trusts_estates_prof/2012/05/ten-fun-facts-about-estate-planning.html