Your probate will   is drawn up to help your family organise the disposal of your estate when you’ve gone. Whilst yours may be simple, here are a few with some quirks to them.

Will’s On Ice With A Twist
It seems prudent to make a will. The majority of us know this, but actually doing it seems such a chore.  How much consideration went in these “wills with a difference”?

Even the legendary conjurer and escape artist, Harry Houdini, couldn’t trick death. Having perished from a burst appendix, one of his biggest shocks came with the will reading. His magicians supplys went to his former partner Theodore, who was also his brother. His mystical powers didn’t work on the next item – his ample array of writings on magic and the supernatural. He left these to the American Society for Psychical Research, but with the term that their research officer J Malcolm Bird, who additionally was the editor of their journal, resigned. They refused the conditions the collection passed to the Library of Congress.

The stage rabbits that he utilised in his act abandoned their hats and were divided around the kids of friends. Continuing the odd theme, his left his wife ten words, which were a secret code, with the avowal that he would employ these words to contact her from the afterlife. Each year for 10 years, following his death, she dutifully held séances, but Houdini never made contact.

Kozmic Blues and rock singer Janis Joplin had a brief but interesting history. She wrote several rock classics and four albums, including “To Love Somebody” and “Me and Bobby McGee”. After years of drugs and drink, she passed away from an overdose, aged twenty seven. Two days prior to her death in 1970 her will      the figure of 2,500 dollars to sponsor an all night party at her favourite bar so that her friends could “get blasted after I’m gone.” It must have been some party – that was an appreciable amount of cash back in 1970.

We’ve all heard of people that, unexpectedly, give all their money to the dogs’ home, much to the dismay of their relatives. Many family feuds begin when a will is read. As long as the person who made the will is of sound mind and not under duress, there is often little that can be done to contest such a decision.

Quirks apart, if you pass on without leaving a will, the people who you would wish to inherit wont always be the ones that do so. You might have a partner of several years, but if you’re not married or in a legal partnership, he or she won’t receive your estate, in spite of your aims and promises. This can be problematic when it’s not clearly stated and can result in devastating fiscal results.

The current way to get your will started is to go online and find a online wills      . However simple your intentions are, it’s best to get the professionals to make it for you and you can be assured that you’re leaving things exactly how you would wish them to be.