laramie

I don't expect to inherit much when my stepmom dies and the money from my father is distributed to his kids, because they were very good about giving us money while they were still alive (for instance, they matched whatever any of us could come up with for a down payment on a house). We know that was our "inheritance money." Dad wanted us to avoid estate taxes as much as possible.

As for us, we keep putting on doing any lawyer-assisted will because we own our house and have no other real assets. We made a will. That's about as good as it'll get. Unless someone wants my collection of Swedish-language books, but no one in my family would.