This is a clear-cut case of “do as I say, not as I do”. Well, I’ve done it. I’ve fixed my embarrassing inability to come to terms with adulthood.
Being face-to-face with death (not my own), I recognised I had to get my own life in order. This is the one thing you have to do before you die – and I finally did it. Read the story about Andrew Findlay, the bloke who died in a freak boating accident.
Findlay’s former partner and their children now face a legal battle over his multimillion-dollar fortune and a trophy home in Centennial Park. The late Andrew Findlay and his former partner Liz Kemp, who has launched proceedings in the Supreme Court over his multimillion-dollar estate. Credit: Matthew Tompsett Then wonder how it is that a person who had a serious responsible job and a complicated personal life could possibly have died without a will which reflected his intentions.
Then take a good look in the mirror. Chances are you will join about half the adult population who hasn’t thought about it, don’t want to do it, think they have nothing to bequeath. And that’s not even counting the ones among us who have wills we signed off on a gazillion years ago.
That was the situation with Andrew Findlay. Until a year ago, it was also me. Having kids concentrates your mind (or completely shatters it, you pick).
So when our eldest was born, we started to think about the future. By the time we got to No.3, we wrote a will and assigned our kids and assets (such as they wer.