right, what should happen is, relatives (children, partners etc) should get a fixed amount (not percentage) for absolutely everybody. the rest should go to charities and, so the will maker gets some say in the thing, the charity of thier choice
I’m just gonna pick a wild guess and sat you’re in a bad mood cause a relative of yours died and didn’t leave you anything 
No, I’m jk 
I think that your “poor” or less fortuned relatives should be the ones to recieve your money. Else, they should go to charity.
Are you suggesting that “this is what people should do with their wills” or that “this is what the law should make people do with their wills”?
I don’t think there is anything wrong with wills today?
It’s called a will because it is the choice of the person.
If I die and I know my son is a jerk who would spend all my money on junk then I won’t leave much to him and donate most to a charity, if I know he is responsible then I will leave him a large amount.
Government doesn’t (as far as I know) and should never (US at least)force people to have any mandatory restrictions on their will (Besides keeping it legal of course).
My will - if I died anytime in the near future - would go like this…
Everything that is of no use to charities gets BURNED…
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Dude, that is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen. Talk about having a real undertanding of the nature of money. We need more people like that.
no more two bit doggy food for that lucky pooch.
If i wrote what ThePromethean said, i would’ve rephrased it so it said, it would be nice if… instead of what should happen. I mean the name itself is “will” meaning what happens to your assets is what you ‘will’ to happen.
i reserve my right to be an a$s-Hole even in death lol.
I’ve already written my will. Well, not exactly. It’s not, err, official really. I wrote it on a microsoft word document on my computer.
Well it’s not a will really, it’s information that people might need after my death. Which could be any day! It’s entitled, “If is dead, open this.”
I’m prepared!!
Well actually as far as I know there are some restrictions in the Netherlands. You can’t not give something to your children. Even if you never communicate and they changed their last name because they don’t want anything to do with you anymore. The only way to not give them anything is to let them sign something that says that. So there are some restrictions…
You can however give them as less as possible, or give other children more and such.
But I have to agree, I think someone should decide for themselves where there money goes. Not that a fixed amount to all relatives. You should decide it yourself, if you want to give someone more, give him/her more. If you don’t want your money go to charity you should have the choice to do so.
why not just do a game of catch ini mini minei moe
Here in Norway is it so that your kids (and the kids of your kids if your kids died etc.) need to get something, a fixed part of it i believe. Else than that is it free for you to say. If you haven’t got any family that will get it, nor a will will the goods go to the gouvernment.
Also a will need to have 2 witnesses signing that the one that wrote the will is herself/himself (found no better way to expess it), dad was in court as such a witness for some time ago. The family didn’t care about the old one, but a child that weren’t the old one’s did, and the old one gave everything to the “non-true” child. Then the ones she was aunt to came and wanted the goods when she died and went to court, questioning the will 
But the good one got it 
I really don’t know what i mean when it comes to this subject, off course it is your goods, and you can do what you want with it, but should one be able to leave your own kids nothing?
A while ago, I had been in a really weird mindset. I wanted to leave everything and go up the mountains, or perhaps become a monk, and I’m fairly sure I even considered going to a seminary becoming a priest). It was not long ago, but still before I joined LD4all. Back then, I didn’t want to be so chained to material stuff, to my possessions etc. So I decided to write a will. Unfortunately, being the only one in the group who had an emancipation back then, I couldn’t get anyone to testimony my will (I would not, of course, ask my parents or relatives for that).
Funny thing, eh? Well. Anyway, found out in Brazil things work this way: up to a certain amount of value in terms of possessions, you’re free to decide where everything goes. If you don’t, the government assumes it’s half for the person you’re married to, and the other half to be split by your children—in the lack thereof, the other part gets everything, and in the lack of either, money goes to the government.
Now, if you have gathered quite a lot of value in terms of possessions (I’m using this expression because house and books and Nintendo Wii and of course money count as “value” here), the law forces part of it—some 5% to 10% ish—to be absorbed by the government (namely for social security purposes), and then you can do whatever you want with the rest; and if you don’t write a will it works like I said in the other paragraph.