Joanna Lumley Quotes

I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.

Estate planning is an important and everlasting gift you can give your family. And setting up a smooth inheritance isn't as hard as you might think.

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.

I've got two children, and if my voice is still out there, I want the money to go to them when I die.

I was the depository of the will of the Mexicans

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

Where there's a will - there's a relative!

Executors need to be involved in the planning

I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.

Where there is no will, no rules or laws can help.

I was the executer of our mother's trust. She asked me to hold onto the house for 10 years and then sell it. I think that was because it was so hard to face dying and think of all her most prized possessions no longer being a part of our lives as well. Business wise, it was a terrible investment, because we were losing money.

The most invigorating form of reading matter is, of course, a will.

Honey! Bring down a copy of my will - and an eraser!

I want to be clear here: It does not matter what you say in your will or trust; the beneficiary document attached to your IRA accounts and your life insurance policy overrides what you say elsewhere. If you want to change the beneficiary, you must change the beneficiary document.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, "Son.")

There is no law saying you have to die before your assets can be passed to loved ones. In fact, gifting earlier can be a lovely way to witness how your money helps your family thrive.

I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'

Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it on a piece of paper at home and have your family witness it, you need to write it down.

Wills are trumped by legal titles to real estate or beneficiary designations on financial accounts, retirement plans and insurance policies.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.