Family Matters (eBook)

Lessons on Living, Dying & Leaving Our Stuff Behind

Ann Marquez (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
176 Seiten
Ann Marquez (Verlag)
978-0-9815336-2-9 (ISBN)

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The day her father died of cancer, author Ann Marquez swore she would never again step foot inside his house. Two years later, after receiving a call that her Step-mum had passed away, she realized the need to serve as alternate personal representative to the ongoing probate of his estate. And the need to return.She had assumed and imagined that with cooperation from others, the estate would ';quickly and efficiently' close. Instead, confronted with secrecy, mystery, and hostility from people she'd never known, the situation turned precarious and bizarre. During the next three years she unexpectedly took on many additional roles, including forensic accountant, detective, archeologist, liquidator, salvage/waste management coordinator, and maintenance technician.Marquez chronicled her experience in her book Journey into Probate and Back: a collection of resources intertwined with personal stories that demonstrate how even the best-laid plans often go astray. Ten years after publishing that first account, and with constant encouragement from friends and readers alike, Family Matters: Lessons on Living, Dying, and Leaving Our Stuff Behind is a new edition, tightly focused on those stories and the lessons learned.With quirky humor and honest emotion, Marquez walks the reader along her journey, helping them to understand there's so much more to end-of-life planning than preparing a willand so much more to life than our possessions.These are the things no one warns aboutthe things no one talks about. Family Matters offers life-affirming wisdom on a difficult subject.

Inhalt

About This Edition

Prologue

There Are No Guarantees in Estate Planning

Days of Yore

Waking Dreams

Can I Get a Witness? 

Docs Say So

The Meant to Do List

In the In-between

Who’s in Charge Here?

To the Bitter End

Nevermore

Hospice and Other Earthly Angels

Flight

Going Home: A Place of Rest

Silent Messengers

An Unopened Gift of Hummingbirds

Direction

Kindred

In the Beginning, Dreadful Confusion That Was

A Riddle of Representation 

Confused and Conflicted

Executor Privilege

Don’t Leave Your Executor in the Dark!

Senseless Tragedy

The Civil Servant Millionaire Next Door and the Hide-n-seek Estate

Hit the Pavement

Contact the IRS

The Safe Deposit Box

Quite a Quandary

Send in the Clowns

In the Bank

Stocks

Title Search

Personal Property

Self-worth

Life Insurance

The Elusive Life Insurance Policy

Unclaimed Property

Wasted All Those Years

Will Your Estate Be a Financial Burden?

Heirs and Beneficiaries 

Forgotten: A Granddaughter’s Sorrow

Entrenched

What Does Your Estate Plan Really Say?

A Scrooge Awakening

Types of Disinheritance

But, We Had an Agreement

Not to Worry, You Say?

Big Fat Misunderstanding

Oops, My Bad

For Ever and Ever, Amen

Just Leave Me Out

I’ll Be Dissin’ You, Always

Goodbye, Trouble

A Hug from Mabel

Word

Say What? 

Express Yourself

Ransacked

Mr. Showmanship

The Power Within

Pawpaw’s Hat

And the Ties That Bind

That Ugly Old Painting Syndrome

Displaced Loyalty

Grave Decisions

Cedar, Sage, and the Need for Ritual

Sidewalk Philosophy 

Soul Searching

What’s That Rattling?

Whose Photo Is This and Why Should I Care?

Guessing Game

Spare Parts

About Face

Getting into Harvard

One Last Chance 

Dude, Where’s My Kidney?

Out-sourced

A Winter Festival

Rescuing Ted: A Lesson on Best-laid Plans

What the Heck Is Cryonics, Anyhow?

Art Buchwald, Dubbed: “The Man Who Wouldn’t Die”

In the Ending That Finally Was Found

Private Closure

About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.8.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
• Schlagworte: cleaning and caretaking and relocating • dysfunctional families • end-of-life planning • Estate Planning • executors and administrators • Family relationships • legacy and inheritance
• ISBN-10: 0-9815336-2-0 / 0981533620
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9815336-2-9 / 9780981533629