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Wills
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Kim | Report | 3 Sep 2004 19:31 |
if someone leaves money to one of their children in an annuity in trust , would it be likely this child is under the age of 21 ? This will was dated 1824 |
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Phoenix | Report | 3 Sep 2004 20:03 |
Possibly, but it might also mean that their parents do not regard them as competent to manage their own affairs: either because they are female (!) or as they are spendthrifts. Brenda |
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Kim | Report | 4 Sep 2004 12:43 |
All the rest of the estate was split amongst his children and their heirs but this one son only received £5 ayear for the rest of his natural life , I wonder whether this is because he was disabled or too young to run his own affairs. Kim |
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Phoenix | Report | 4 Sep 2004 14:13 |
Wills often make mention of trusteeship up to a certain age, or marriage for females. If a beneficiary is badly disabled in any way, they may need more than monetary provision and there is sometimes a reference to this. I have a will of a similar period, with similar provisions to yours. When the major trustee made his own will a generation later, he built in all sorts of protections for the trustees named in his own will. I suspect that he had found trusteeship a very onerous task! Brenda |
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KathleenBell | Report | 4 Sep 2004 17:00 |
Was this son from his marriage or could it be that he was an illegitemate son that he wanted to provide for. |
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Kim | Report | 4 Sep 2004 18:01 |
I've no idea the son shares his surname with the father so it doesn't Look illegitimate and the wife has died and is not metioned in the will. I just think he may have been too young. Kim |