Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : Angus McLeod
From : Deuce
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 10:44 am

  Re: Re: Um...no comment?
  By: Angus McLeod to Deuce on Thu Sep 15 2005 00:30:00

 > Perhaps I should use smaller words From the instant of their death, their
 > assets are no longer their assets.  They have become the assets of their
 > heirs, who are free to make such decisions as they see fit.

Actually, the assets are held in trust until the executor doles them out...
after ensuring all debts are paid etc.  If it worked as you say, the police
could arrest and convict me heirs of posession of a firearm upon my death (none
of them hold a firearms certificate).

I'm not aware of any country in which the heirs are immediatly owners of the
deceaseds assets.  I can't help but assume that any such country would also
need to place the liabilities upon the heirs at the same time.

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