Entitled…Whatever WILL be, WILL be

As the only child for my divorced mother it was always assumed I would be her sole beneficiary in the event of her passing.  As far as I know and according to her last drafted Will I believe that is still the case. 

My husband and I are also taking on the daunting task of aging gracefully and are working on putting our affairs in order. As we muddle through endless paperwork and take inventory of our assets the assumption of who our beneficiaries are is not as simple as it might seem. 

We are closely considering the years of hard work and sacrifice that has gone into building our estate as we make decisions on what we might leave to our children and /or others. 

Of course my husband is not JR Ewing (worthy of google, if you don’t know who that is) so our estate is not massive but there will be a few things left behind when we leave this world. Who should be in charge of carrying out our wishes? Do all the children deserve equal portions or is there a way to measure who gets what? What about grandchildren? Should we have a trust? These are all questions that have surfaced even with a middle class income.

I suppose whatever WILL (Pun intended) be , WILL be and those that receive a token of our life choices no matter how small will appreciate what was bestowed upon them. For those that might feel entitled but for whatever reason will not reap the rewards of our labor, I guess Que Sera Sera as that is how it WILL be.