Yes, but much less entertaining to dwell on those things about which we fully agree.
My only caveat vs yours is in... I'm not waiting until passing to ensure the kids are provisioned...
Based on my own experience, recently... my Dad became easily confused and manipulated in his last years. Most of his very well structured plan for the inheritance and its future (I was to be the trustee of the trust...as it was my effort and accumen that had grown that reserve for my Dad) "didn't make it" to the trust, or to the intended recipients... But the second wife and her kids and grandkids are all flush... along with a couple of shyster lawyers... who destroyed the legitimate will, claimed it didn't exist, and replaced it with a fraud... only without bothering to eliminate the references to the original in their own work.. while there were none for the new document.
I had to lead the effort to stop the theft... easily caught them red-handed, but no one cared about the crime, of course... and then, after years and years of paying the legal fees... have finally recovered roughly half of what the siblings should have had in the trust... only in a form that required killing the trust to recover half the value...
While I fully expect to remain sentient until I die... I'm too well aware that wills, and trusts, and lawyers... are not the value advertised by the professions...
And, people are evil and greedy... the less capable of handling money... the more willing to steal, it seems.
I won't be challenged in rebuilding... but it will mean more work and more risk taking... when I'd rather work less and play more, now, and avoid the risks... but it leaves me with a new plan:
Die owing and owning nothing... and there will be nothing to steal, and nothing to fight over... and the lawyers and crooks won't get any of it...
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