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Youre family gets to fight over it all !!!

2006-08-07 12:09:41 · answer #1 · answered by est 2 · 0 1

"Possession" is a term that has meaning only in relation to an individual. When you die you cease to be an individual (for the nonce) and you no longer have possessions: What you DID have are vested in your estate -- a legal "individual" for that purpose. Your will -- or if you died intestate, the court -- decides on the way your estate is distributed. Insurance poliicies most often do NOT go to the estate: while you are still alive you nominate a beneficiary, who automatically receives the proceeds (death benefits) of any policy. Depending on what possessions you had, the government may very well enact laws taking your estat or otherwise modifying its distribution.
In various ccountries there are "grey" bits of the law -- as to whether your body or its fluids constitute "possessions". Your estate may or may not become enriched by a medical use for your blood, for example (a fact that slowed development of HIV treatment by several years, and nearly caused several bankrupcies and a nasty diplomatic incident between France and the USA).

2006-08-07 15:52:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The family fights over it! My great-aunt passed away way before I was born, and while she was alive she had promised my grandmother that when she died she would give her the antique coffee table. Well, she didn´t leave a will and the coffee table got passed on to her other sister instead! My grandmother and her sister didn´t speak for 10 years because of that incident...silly how much of an effect an antique coffe table has on some people.

2006-08-07 14:01:20 · answer #3 · answered by Green-Eyed Gal 7 · 0 0

They get sold, fall apart, get inherited for future family generations, they get eaten, chewed up by grandkids or small pets, get buried in the yard, get discarded by the kids as unorganized junk that you never got rid of, gets donated to a musuem, sits in the attick until the new tenants stumble upon it and hope its a treasure map, gets shipped off to a 3rd world nation, gets donated to the red cross, becomes a breeding ground for moths or rust, finds a new home in a box in the descendent's garage....

2006-08-07 12:12:52 · answer #4 · answered by officeathlete78 2 · 0 0

your possessions lose all their meaning as soon as you die, this si why stuff is often sold , given away , family splits it or even thrown out, once your gone so are your possessions in the end it was only material objects but to you they had a special meaning, it's sad to see how far families go to take what you once worked hard for.

2006-08-07 12:21:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Your family gets most of it, then some the lost relatives you have not seen for years come out of the woodwork to help distribute it, then the rest is taken to boot sales, charity shops and the tip, sad really innit, think I shall sell it all on eBay and have cruise before I snuff it! Who is cynical?

2006-08-07 12:12:14 · answer #6 · answered by SUPER-GLITCH 6 · 0 0

I reckon all those people my mother in law invited to our wedding that no-one had ever met or heard of will get our possessions, they seemed to think they were entitled to come to our wedding without reason so maybe they get out stuff without reason, I really don't care who gets my stuff as long as I get to spend all my money before I go.

2006-08-07 12:56:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

It is a big family argument over what belongs to the deceased.

One wants what ever the other say they want.

Most ways to stop fights is have a will made out before you die saying who gets what and that way there isn't any fights.

2006-08-07 12:16:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

They are no longer your possessions. The greater direction of the universe decides.

2006-08-10 16:54:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The government just took dibs on my house. But, that won't happen and eveything else is being passed down the family line.

2006-08-07 12:11:26 · answer #10 · answered by darlene793 3 · 0 0

Well I buried my dad earlier this year and it was kinda like a help yourself thing where the family took what was good and the rest was thrown out. I managed to get his personal stuff though.

2006-08-07 12:10:34 · answer #11 · answered by Gavin T 7 · 0 0

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