Where there's no will there's no way.

Lots of people don't have wills. And it's a huge mistake.. Because if you die nobody will know what to do with your estate, not matter how small it.  Or, worse, the will hand it over people you may not like instead of the family and friends whose lives you would like to make easier. Here are two horror stories about persons without wills. The first person is Lee, who was an alcoholic and drug user. He was forever in some kind of treatment facility. Fortunately he had a sane, well off, much older lover who kept rescuing him. When the lover, let's call him John, died, he left several friends generous amounts, but left the bulk of his fortune to his dissolute lover, despite warnings that Lee would waste it and be dead within four years. But John insisted he had Lee's promise that he would leave any remaining monies to animal shelters, a cause dear to both of them. The only problem is that Lee did die within four years without creating a will. Which meant John's remaining fortune went to Lee's greedy family, whom John didn't even like. So basically John worked his entire career to enrich the lives of people he no affection for. Why? Because careless drunk Lee didn't make a will. A second case was the sister of a friend. She died in Arlington, Virginia,without a will which meant her estate was to be divided between her four siblings. However, one of them who was being cared for by the state declined her share because of the complications. But the idiotic state of Virginia ruled that, in that case, her fourth share was to be divided among her three children, whom she hadn't seen in years. Her kids were all shiftless losers who deserted her when she was sick and didn't deserve a dime, much less thousands in unearned capital. To make matters worse, the sister who died detested, and rightly so, her nieces and nephew, which made no difference at all to the rigid, bullying and illogical State of Virginia. Those are two horror stories about people who died intestate. I hope it encourages you to get a will.