A man has 3 children. Each child is an adult and has chosen their lifestyle accordingly, to suite their tastes. Each child had the same opportunity to have education, manners, social skills, and the like. Each child had the capability to work hard, broaden horizons, stay fit, have religious and moral mores. All three children are married, and have 2 children. The first child makes $125,00.00 a year. The second child makes $50,00.00 a year. The third child makes $30,000.00 a year. It is time for the father to make out his will, and he has a vast amont of assetts. He is considering dividing his assetts up using a theory of need. He has deduced that the third child should get a bigger third, since he/she has the smallest income, and would need it the most. The general consensus of the mother of these children, feels that each child should get an equal third, as it is not the fault of the first and second child, that the third child has not tried to reach his/her full potential, and is a slacker. She feels it would be another reinforcement of the childs lifelong position of "someone will take care of me, because I am the most needy." This is not Folklore or Homespun info., but it is about Folks and it is a Home life situation. Given the above information, how do you think the monies should be dispursed? I give my solemn vow--- this is NOT my family !!!!! Cece

I've got two answers I'll let you decide if they are right or wrong. My first thought is to divide it equal amoung them. But then for some reason I fell if I was in the lessor position it should de divided by each person abilities. E ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cece" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 13:10 Subject: [FOLKLORE FAMILY] A Question About a Will > A man has 3 children. > > Each child is an adult and has chosen their lifestyle accordingly, to suite > their tastes. > > Each child had the same opportunity to have education, manners, social > skills, and the like. > > Each child had the capability to work hard, broaden horizons, stay fit, have > religious and moral mores. > > All three children are married, and have 2 children. The first child makes > $125,00.00 a year. The second child makes $50,00.00 a year. The third child > makes $30,000.00 a year. > > It is time for the father to make out his will, and he has a vast amont of > assetts. He is considering dividing his assetts up using a theory of need. > He has deduced that the third child should get a bigger third, since he/she > has the smallest income, and would need it the most. > > The general consensus of the mother of these children, feels that each child > should get an equal third, as it is not the fault of the first and second > child, that the third child has not tried to reach his/her full potential, > and is a slacker. She feels it would be another reinforcement of the childs > lifelong position of "someone will take care of me, because I am the most > needy." > > This is not Folklore or Homespun info., but it is about Folks and it is a > Home life situation. > > Given the above information, how do you think the monies should be > dispursed? > > I give my solemn vow--- this is NOT my family !!!!! > > Cece > > > ==== FOLKLORE Mailing List ==== > For questions about this list, contact the list administrator at > [email protected] > »§«:*´`³¤³´´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§« > >

Either equally or none to children, equally among the grands for college. Cece wrote: > A man has 3 children. >

Unless the children who have done less well are HANDICAPPED by physical accident or sickness or have been PREVENTED from living up to his/her potential and applying himself by circumstances other than his own laziness or mistakes, ALL SHOULD INHERIT EQUALLY. Since the purpose (of the mother) is to be fair and equable, that is the only SIMPLE solution. However, if the life work choices of the three cause the differences in income, one might consider differently. If one child lives a selfish lifestyle (especially if he/she is the one with the most money) and one of the others became an altruistic server /servant of mankind, organized or did more charitable work (like adopting homeless or orphaned children for instance) then the couple may want to reduce the equal amount inherited by all children (divide into 4ths instead of 3rds) AND set up a "foundation" to help support the charity of the child making less money but doing more for mankind with all 3 children as the directors of who/what charity gets the money. Of course, they could put it all in a trust fund for the education of the grandchildren/ future generations! There really isn't a SIMPLE answer, is there?!? TeeHee ======== At 10:10 AM 11/20/2001, you wrote: >It is time for the father to make out his will, and he has a vast amont of >assetts. He is considering dividing his assetts up using a theory of need. >He has deduced that the third child should get a bigger third, since he/she >has the smallest income, and would need it the most. > >The general consensus of the mother of these children, feels that each child >should get an equal third, as it is not the fault of the first and second >child, that the third child has not tried to reach his/her full potential, >and is a slacker. She feels it would be another reinforcement of the childs >lifelong position of "someone will take care of me, because I am the most >needy."