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Strange Estate Plan Requests

It’s been a while since I posted about the weird clauses in estate planning history. I always say your Will needs to fit your unique needs, but these clients took that saying a little too literally.

Here are some strange instructions left in an Estate Plan, according to Google:

Seventy strangers

When Portuguese aristocrat Luis Carlos de Noronha Cabral da Camara wrote up his will, he left his considerable fortune to 70 strangers randomly chosen out of a Lisbon phone directory.

Pet trust and charities

Oprah established a trust with $30 million for her pet dogs to continue receiving excellent treatment and care. She plans to give the bulk of her $3 billion estate to charitable causes.

His wife only if she remarried

Heinrich Heine, a poet from Germany, left his widow Mathilde all of his money under one condition: she could inherit it only if she remarried. Heinrich explained his strange stipulation: “Because then, at least one man will regret my death.” So talk about having the last word. Ouch.

Twenty-one years after the last grandchild dies

Wellington Burt, a magnate from Michigan, died in 1919, leaving a very unusual request. He stipulated that his massive wealth would be inherited by his descendants only 21 years after his last grandchild died. Burt’s last surviving grandchild died in 1989. Twenty-one years later, in 2011, 12 far-removed relatives of the eccentric merchant have finally been paid out. Each of them got about $110 million.

Mom with the most babies

Charles Millar, a Canadian attorney, died a childless bachelor, but he left $568,106 to the mother who gave birth to the most children in Toronto in the ten years following his 1928 death. This bequest prompted what Canadians called “the Baby Derby” as mothers raced to win the fortune. In 1938 four winners split the prize after giving birth to nine babies apiece.

All joking aside, if you are putting your Estate Plan together, always get advice from a trusted professional.

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