Probate Process Quotes

Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows thatthe Will's need to will is no less strong than Reason's need to think; in both instances the mind transcends its own natural limitations, either by asking unanswerable questions or by projecting itself into a future which, for the willing subject, will never be.

Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.

Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.

i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive

As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.

Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related.

The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

I don't like the repeal of the estate tax.

There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and bequeath.

Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance.