From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   I will make a remark about wills that have exhaustive and specific   
   distributions of personal assets.   
   They are often a decade or more old by the time the author passes.  When there   
   is a direct bequest of a shotgun or something, it is often absent when the   
   estate administrator looks for it.  The decedent may have accumulated debts   
   and the estate is    
   insolvent; items that were bequeathed to people, especially large items like   
   homes, boats and automobiles, are then sold.  The decedent may have been in an   
   eldercare situation for several years, and the government has seized or forced   
   the sale of most or    
   all of his assets, leaving his heirs with almost nothing.  These are all   
   common situations.  We assume it will never happen, but it is common that it   
   becomes impossible to carry out the terms of the will.   
      
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