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Thread ID: 105244 2009-11-24 18:04:00 What happens if I die? Cato (6936) PC World Chat
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833216 2009-11-25 02:43:00 Only if they get to be pointed as administrators for your estate.

Madness.

Possibly but in my view it may be better than letting the State decide for you where your assets go.

Of course you get no say after you're dead so it's best to make a will.
Sweep (90)
833217 2009-11-25 02:48:00 Your better off paying the $80 and nominating someone else as administrator, after the public trust bill your estate for their "services" there won't be any estate left for the benefactors.

hell, Just give it to the SPCA if there is no family.
Metla (12)
833218 2009-11-25 06:16:00 What would happen if I died?

Who would get my stuff? I have no "will" or anything similar. So how would everything be sorted?

Who would get the house, cars, etc?

If there is no living family who still live in NZ (none that I actually know in person, in any case), what would happen?

Lots of people would cry. Seriously? Go make a will. The Public Trust do a really good one, costs nothing and you know your stuff will be distributed according to your wishes.

LL
lakewoodlady (103)
833219 2009-11-25 06:18:00 Public Trust takes 2% of the value of your estate I think?

LL
lakewoodlady (103)
833220 2009-11-25 06:24:00 They pro'lly get to decide which 2% too ;) R2x1 (4628)
833221 2009-11-25 06:32:00 Public Trust takes 2% of the value of your estate I think?

LL

It actually depends on the value of the estate.

You do get to appoint your own executor.
Sweep (90)
833222 2009-11-25 06:53:00 I have nothing now and probaly never will, do you have dependants or anyone close who needs it? Just make a will that says you want everything you own dumped on your selfish corpse

I see I made a pun in there
hueybot3000 (3646)
833223 2009-11-25 06:56:00 When you die they can't make you take back your library books, and you are exempt from parking tickets no matter how long you stay dead. R2x1 (4628)
833224 2009-11-25 07:08:00 You get put into a wooden box if your lucky or an MDF one if your a cheapskate and either buried, burned or pushed off the wharf. It doesn't matter which as it's too late complain your dead and don't believe these rumours of an afterlife, if they are true where's the proof? :2cents: gary67 (56)
833225 2009-11-26 00:41:00 If you die intestate (no will) and you have no heirs as defined by the Administration Act 1969, then your estate will be held by the government in the consolidated fund.

There used to be lists of such estates in the back of Truth inviting claimants to come forward. I do recall dealing with an estate once from 1948 which owned valuable shares in an English company and a claim turned up in the 1980s.

None of this prevents your ex claiming or indeed any other person but they have to prove the claim in the High Court. If you owed a significant debt, your creditor can apply to administer the estate and be paid.
Winston001 (3612)
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