Prevent Blood-Sucking Relatives from Draining your Legacy
Today is Halloween. Time to think about those blood-sucking zombies. Yes, you know who I'm talking about, don't you? Your undeserving relatives. Now, you've probably heard about Testator Family Maintenance. That's where someone can challenge your will.
In this scary video, I talk about how to protect your assets and your Estate
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VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
Ross Millen:
Yes, it's Halloween, time to think about those blood-sucking zombies. Yes, you know who I'm talking about, don't you? Your undeserving relatives. Now, you've probably heard about Testator Family Maintenance. That's where someone can challenge your will. And we do a lot of that work at Millens, both challenging unfair wills and advising people how to draft their will and their estate planning to future-proof their will. There'd be nothing scarier on Halloween than thinking that what you provide in your will is actually not what happens. That the people, the beneficiaries you want to receive certain assets or certain amounts of money don't receive them, and instead, perhaps undeserving relatives receive it instead.
Now, we're thinking, in this day and age, of children who you may be estranged from. We've had a situation where there's children that have actually stolen money from their parents. And the parents are terrified, they're scared, not just because it's Halloween, but when they die, perhaps those undeserving children will be able to challenge the will and get more than what the parents want them to have.
Now, we've got a very effective department here that advises. And there's two key things. Making sure that your estate plan and your will provides necessary explanation when someone's not included, and also, another thing is if you transfer some assets now, then obviously they don't form part of your estate and therefore they can't be the subject of a claim under your will.
So if these are things that are worrying you, keeping you up at night, particularly on Halloween, then contact us. We can help you design an estate plan that's going to work, and you can be comfortable knowing that Millens has helped. So remember, any questions, contact me at Millens, or one of our team, and we're only too happy to help you and put your mind at rest. I'm Ross Millen from Millens. We're here to help. Thanks.
