by restrangled 32 Replies latest jw friends
Mary,
You brought up some good points. Who is taking care of my mom? Right now she is still healthy but when she does get ill, or falls and breaks a hip, I am going to have a hard time deciding what to do.
I did receive a phone message from her stating that the "Living Trust" has been changed. I can only imagine, but I refuse to be bought. No amount of money would be worth tolerating one more minute of this garbage in my life.
r.
Mary,
I forgot to mention my father died 6 years ago, an "apostate" in my mother's eyes. I have one younger brother who has nothing to do with the family and another brother who died when he was 20 in a motorcylce accident. So I was all she had left. We live 2 blocks apart.
r.
I wonder if your mother thinks that the loving friends will care for her when that becomes necessary...or if they will even visit if she is in a home. She is going to be very disappointed unless there are some unusual JWs in her congregation.
I think this is what the WTS is shooting for. Get these elderly ones to disown their non-JW children and change their Wills to give their money and property to the Society.
Luna said: I think this is what the WTS is shooting for. Get these elderly ones to disown their non-JW children and change their Wills to give their money and property to the Society.
That is EXACTLY what they're shooting for Luna.....happened to my uncle a few years ago. His father had died and left everything to his second wife, my uncle's step-monster. Even though my uncle is a Dub in good standing, the old bag vindictively left the entire estate to the WTS. The estate, including the house was probably worth about $400,000. My uncle, not wanting to get DF'd, accepted her decision, but I could tell he was upset that a multi-billion dollar corporation inherited what should have been HIS. Greedy Bastards.
restrangled said: I did receive a phone message from her stating that the "Living Trust" has been changed. I can only imagine, but I refuse to be bought. No amount of money would be worth tolerating one more minute of this garbage in my life.
I know it's hard, but I would definitely want to know what it's been changed to. Are you executor of your mother's estate? If she's decided to cut you out of her will, then as hard as it is, I would not be taking care of her and I would let her know why. If she feels that the brothers and sisters at the Hall are such damn fine christians, then let THEM take care of her. I guarantee you that they won't. I would also talk to a lawyer to specializes in this time of thing. Ex-Witnesses aren't the only ones who watch their inheritence go to a rip-off cult (to quote Danny Hazzard). Please check this out carefully to see if there's anything you can do.
I know that one of the reasons my grandmother was always so opposed to JWs was that my grandfather's sisters (who were dubs, married but childless), left their estates to the Tower. Don't know how much they were worth or anything. I think it was the principal of the thing to my grandmother...you don't leave everything to some dumb cult when you have family members that could use it. LOL
Think of how much easier it it for them to collect entire estates than the trickling in of $10.00 here or there. My mom has already sent them $100,000.00 that they pay about 6% interest quarterly to her until she dies and then they keep the principal. They have an entire office of specialists that help with investing and estates.
My dad had left a will on his computer which my son had helped him with. After he died my mother had some idiot from the hall come and erase the entire hard drive because it was filled with apostate material. There was no hard copy. In that will was money left for my sons' college education. Of course, because she does not believe in higher education no need to worry about grandkids when the WBTS is so needy.
r.
Can't a person contest a will and make it go to probate court for the judge to maka final decision about the inheritance or estates I know for damn sure if I was disinherited because i was not longer a witness I would be thrashing all over my family and make it known that it will be held up until a final judgement is made.
I can't understand it, here you lovingly look and care for your parents and give them the extra care needed and then the person cuts you out of the will. I would wonder if the descission would be upheld or would the judge think that the family tricked the ill person to sign another family memeber the inheritor. I know I would sure as hell fight for my birth right.
just before I left he organizaton, (my mom didn't know this at the time she made a new will that I was leaving the organization}. I don't think my mom would disinherit me, but I worry about a couple of my sisters who are vultures and would want what is rightly mine. They are going to have a r ude awakening if they try to make mom change her will so they get more money.. Because I am willing to fight for what is mine.
Too many give their money and estates the WTS and I think the Society is made up of swindlers and manipulators, and remember the Society is using the legal system now more that ever before.
They are a bunch of grubby stealers. I hate the Governing Body, the WTBTS, the coperation and whatever else makes up the Organization. I hope they come tumbling down. Like Mary said like a house of cards.
I am so sorry your having to go through a difficult time, my prayers are with you.
love Orangefatcat
kitty commando!!
The only problem with probate is it tends to eat up the estate in attorneys fees. When I was working with attorneys there was a big meeting we attended about the cases in probate. The probate attorney joked about holding up the cases and actually said the more phone calls from the family the better....they charge in 10 minute increments.
An example of this was Marylin Monroe's estate. At the start it was worth as I remember approximately 100,000.00 when it finally settled (10 years later) there was only a few hundred dollars left.
r.
I looked up Monroe's probate figures: Here are the actual numbers:
18 years to settle
over 1 million in probate costs and fees.
400,000.00 owed in bills etc.
100,000.00 left for her heirs.
r.
Maybe. But between the two, I'd rather see the lawyer get the money than the WTS. Now that's bad when you want to see a lawyer get money!!!
