[Joeaksa]

Ian,

Sorry to hear of your troubles. I went one very important step further than your request.

Years ago set up a private trust, and part of that trust is a will and living will. It takes care of all that you mentioned above and when I pass there will be nothing done in court what so ever. The secondary trustee (guy I grew up with, have known him all my life) will simply take over as trustee and its done.

Have had several friends pass in the last 5 years. Most did not have a trust/will and one did. The one that had a trust/will it was painless and saved my friends wife almost $400,000 in estate taxes and so on.

For $1000 that it cost to set up the trust (anything that's worth over $1000 or so in my world is now owned by the trust) its very cheap insurance. As well it works well with the vehicles as the trust is located in an area that makes life very easy. No smog, easy registration and so on. I should have done this 30 years ago.

Joe A