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Tennessee man leaves $5 million to dog in his will: 'She’s a good girl'

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2021 5:34 am
by Toboe
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 472984001/

Anybody smell a new Milton-esqe estate?

Re: Tennessee man leaves $5 million to dog in his will: 'She’s a good girl'

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2021 5:22 pm
by Sleet
Similarly, I'm sure humans are going to try to weasel that money out of her.

Re: Tennessee man leaves $5 million to dog in his will: 'She’s a good girl'

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 12:11 pm
by Vertigo Fox
I do wonder... if you've got a large estate and an especially greedy or combative family, maybe pulling something like this as a way to say "no, none of you will get it" is the best thing you could do.
Even if it probably won't cause them to re-evaluate their relationships to each other, at least it might stop the whole situation from turning into an Agatha Christie novel.

Re: Tennessee man leaves $5 million to dog in his will: 'She’s a good girl'

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 12:33 pm
by Harry Johnathan
I remember reading about a man leaving his estate to his pet cat, only for one of his cousins to kill the cat to try and take the money. The money ending up going to charity and the cousin killed himself out of spite.

Re: Tennessee man leaves $5 million to dog in his will: 'She’s a good girl'

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 1:51 pm
by NHWestoN
Do those wills hold up in court?

Re: Tennessee man leaves $5 million to dog in his will: 'She’s a good girl'

Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 7:53 pm
by Vertigo Fox
I imagine you'd want a lawyer to go over them very carefully and look for any reason they might not, or any loopholes greedy relatives could exploit.
But I remember hearing somewhere that they generally do stand.

Re: Tennessee man leaves $5 million to dog in his will: 'She’s a good girl'

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2021 1:20 am
by Amazee Dayzee
Not sure what a dog is going to do with the money or if the money is used towards keeping it alive and general veterinarian bills and other supplies but it is nice that he loved his dog so much to do this.

Re: Tennessee man leaves $5 million to dog in his will: 'She’s a good girl'

Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 10:49 pm
by Dogglar
Sounds like someone from around here. Might do that myself lol.

Re: Tennessee man leaves $5 million to dog in his will: 'She’s a good girl'

Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 9:26 am
by NHWestoN
Is Mr. London handling the Trust? (Surely not Steward.)