Posted by Caliban Darklock on June 12, 2008 at 10:37:04:
In Reply to: Why My Heirs Don't Deserve a Dime posted by Alan Brymer on May 09, 2008 at 08:48:07:
If your heirs don't deserve your money, you haven't done your job as a parent.
If you did your job, they wouldn't NEED your money. Through the benefit of your experience and instruction, and the advantage of all the things you now know you SHOULD have done at a early age - but didn't know then, and hence didn't do - their own fortunes should dwarf yours. Their "fair share" of your estate should not even interest them.
What should interest them, and deeply affect them, is that your passing deprives them of a great friend and trusted advisor. If you have not become such a friend and advisor in their eyes, no amount of financial success and no quantity of material wealth can dispel the depth and profundity of your abject failure as a parent.
This is a terribly harsh standard, and I don't expect everyone to share it. I apply it only to myself, and bear no ill will toward anyone who prefers a different attitude. But in the end, I don't care what happens to my estate, because the children are my real legacy. If they are not good enough, I was not good enough.
- Re: My take Alan Brymer 10:44:32 07/01/08 (1)
- Re: My take Caliban Darklock 10:51:32 07/01/08 (0)