Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Good or bad idea Date: 17 Jun 2015 12:12:38 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <150620151857071225%timstreater@greenbee.net> <557f9e5e$0$32306$c3e8da3$cc4fe22d@news.astraweb.com> <37bvnatns8l2490p7p6f1nv6kogaruh686@4ax.com> <5580c91c$0$44102$b1db1813$46decd27@news.astraweb.com> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net Px95bylmU0cxmeJ+i+u7dQcuHIBhMziKCnLrAQXvD7SAIZogNY Cancel-Lock: sha1:pc8SJ9C2MeB5YvIVC/U/0KHduL4= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:76725 On 2015-06-17, JF Mezei wrote: > On 15-06-16 01:02, John wrote: > >> No will. No executor. No reason for either. > > Then the government decides who will be executor and who inrerits. > >> Not everyone owns companies, islands, yachts, stock portfolios and >> banks. Some of us don't really own *anything*. > > Someone still has to do the final taxes, collect insurance, retirement > funds (and pay taxes as the funds widthdrawn from retirement plans) etc. > > You can't just go to a bank and tell the manager that such and such > died. You need an official death certificate. And once you get that, > they will want to see official will to ensure that you are the executor > and have rights to manage that account. That's not how it works in the UK, although close enough. -- Today is Pungenday, the 22nd day of Confusion in the YOLD 3181 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.