31 of the Wildest Things People Included in Their Will

‘My grandfather saved his kidney stone so that he could leave it to my cousin’
31 of the Wildest Things People Included in Their Will

A will is, usually, the last form of communication you’re going to control with your loved ones after you’ve passed. It’s a chance for one more pre-planned bit of information from beyond this mortal coil. Sure, it’s not the most casual conversation, given that there’s usually a good bit of money and assets at stake, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have a little fun with it.

If you have the option, why not make an Agatha Christie-style video and accompanying murder mystery? Or plant a mysterious safe before you kick off? 

Along those lines, Redditors have shared, whether through personal or professional knowledge, some of the weirdest requests and rules that showed up in some late human’s will. So, read on in case you want a few ideas to get a chuckle of your own, post-cremation.

scarlett_pimpernel Ф 7y ago | am a qualified solicitor, my favourite two are: 1. A lady wanted to create a trust fund of £100,000, for her pet fish. When I asked if it was a special kind of fish, she confirmed it was just a normal goldfish but she wanted it to be fed fresh avocado every day and be looked after by a local dog walker after she died. She was absolutely serious.
nelson227 . 7y ago Might be late to the party and not a lawyer, but my great-grandad had a clause in his will that stated something along the lines of, if any of the beneficiaries decide to dispute the contents of the decedent's estate, their share becomes $1 and nothing else. Seemed like a pretty good way to maintain harmony among his survivors.
. 7y ago I'm not a lawyer, but my grandfather saved his kidney stone so that he could leave it to my cousin. They never really got along.
Navaro27 . 7y ago When my grandfather passed his will asked that I clean out his shed, and I alone. I found marijuana seeds, old reel style film pornography, which was hilarious and a bunch of other unsavory paraphernalia. 50's flick knives too.
. 7y ago Edited 7y ago I had a Russian client. Son of an oligarch. His father created a trust which provided dispositive provisions for if he was kidnapped and not found within a certain number of months. Freaked me out. | believe the will had similar language too, but I can't remember now.
BrannyB . 7y ago My friends mother had in her will that cat gets to live in my house alone until it expires the cat lived there for a few years alone with a caregiver checking on it. Yes she was rich.
Dr_BrOneil 7y ago Just last week | handled a matter where the parents left millions in artwork to various people, wads of cash to various charities, and only left their kids the family cats. Turns out they did it because the kids got them the cats to comfort the parents in their old age and the parents fucking hated the cats but the kids wouldn't let them get rid of the cats.
staying_incognito87 7y ago Not a lawyer but my mom put in her will that if she dies under suspicious circumstances that my sister and I won't be left anything. She watches a lot of true crime.
In that same will and trust, she also left a slew of people only one dollar, so that there would be no chance they could take the trust to probate court one the basis that they were merely forgotten. That part had so MUCH SUBTLE SHADE. A lot of they know what they did, they are well aware of their guilt in the matter, etc. They she split up about 2 million dollars among 5 or 6 different animal rescues and animal welfare charities. It was around 200 pages long, and | swear I read the entire thing just for
EndlessArgument 7y ago Not a Lawyer, but an aging woman my family knew left her house(large, and in a very affluent neighborhood) and estate to family friends for so long as her cats were alive and taken care of in said house. After they died, the house was to be sold and the remaining estate donated. The weird thing is, it's been like 20 years and the cats are still alive. Also, they've changed color.
Sandor17 7y ago Not a will, but a deed. The City I work for was renovating a small park that was donated to the City in the 1910s. We went looking through the hand-written deed for easements or other restrictions and found that the family could claw the property back if the park were not, perpetually provided with a fountain of pleasant running water fit for consumption by man and beast alike. ...the family still has descendants in town, so we installed a new water fountain with a dog bowl filler just to be safe.
littleredbird1991 7y ago Here's one from one of my dad's law partners. Не had a lady come in with an itemized list of books and wanted her will to contain all of the books and who will get what based on her choosing. So basically she decides who gets what specific book instead of letting her beneficiaries decide. The truly astonishing thing is how many books and how specific they get. According to dad's law partner her list is at about 2,000 books to be divided among about 30 people. She is apparently very specific and comes back at least
Processtour . 7y ago My sister's mother in-law is leaving her house to her three sons. If one wants to sell out his third of the house, he has to sell it to the other two brothers for $1.
2rio2 . 7y ago A furby collection from models collected in the late 90's. They were convinced they would retain future value. This was 2011.
Headbangerfacerip 7y ago My grandpa gave me all his tools(which sounds dumb but we are in the same trade and it was a real life changer, it included a lift and his old shop truck so I pretty much got everything to start my own shop but a building) a pretty good chunk of change, and his dog Tanner, as long as I made sure his live in girlfriend at the time got nothing at all and I told my uncle he was fat and his wife was going to leave him if she couldn't find his pecker. There was
. 7y ago I had the first son so my dad decided to leave me more. Except he did the math wrong and it came out to 105%. Не had dementia.
Cocoah83 7y ago I'm the executor of my grandmother's will. I also get the house and everything in it and a share of life insurance that's split three ways between myself, sister, and mom. My mom has always said that all my dad , my grandmothers son-in-law, would like to have is some table. Well in the will there's like a whole paragraph that states how my dad gets nothing, he doesn't lay a finger on any thing in the house or any money. How my dad is basically worthless and deserves nothing and how he was a crap dad and
7y ago So this is related. Worked on a divorce up a couple who fought over every single thing in the house. Separating pillows and such. They were left 52 gallons of vanilla extract by her grandmother. In a secondary preceding he was awarded all but 5 gallons. Two weeks later he sent in a case of samples in zip lock baggies to our office along with a request to subpoena a urine test from his ex-wife to prove she pissed in the jugs before he picked them up. We never needed to as she screamed in court that
. 7y ago My vindictive grandmother left my aunt $20 as a reminder of the $20 my aunt stole from her once.
NerdSandwich . 7y ago Not a lawyer, but I work at a law firm. One client left $100,000.00 to his two cats so they could maintain their current lifestyle.
thecatdaddysupreme 7y ago My grandma left a penny and a nasty comment to almost every person in the will, all of her sons and daughters, even a few grandchildren, except for me. I got 1,000 dollars. Thanks, grandma.
7y ago Edited 7y ago Not a lawyer but my grandpa put in his will a chocolate bar for everyone one of his grand kids. Well I have like 12 cousins and very difficult to track down where a couple of them went. All this estates and money he had in will was at a stand still for months because they couldn't find my couple cousins. Had to show court we put in effort to hire someone to track them down etc. The lawyer that was helping execute the Will was blown away that this lawyer allowed this and
WanderCold 7y ago Edited 7y ago I (early 20s) was forced to write a will due to the health insurance i get at work, and, amongst sensible stuff, the in-house lawyer said it was totally okay for this clause to be added: My funeral wishes are that i be buried in a coffin which has been springloaded, such that opening the coffin would cause alarm to future archeologists Then a bunch of stuff about if this is to costly i'd be cremated and have my ashes scattered in a specific place.
ThisSideOfVanishing . 7y ago Edited 7y ago Had a friend who had a toxic relationship with his uncle. When his uncle passed he was surprised to find he was in the will. Turns out there was a handwritten IOU that read I'm leaving you 15k BUT you have to come get it from me. I'll see you in hell! My friend laughed.
Michaeldim1 . 7y ago No, ma'am, in order to bequeath something, you actually have to own it.
ronnstor . 7y ago Client wanted her ashes spread at the restaurant (on the beach) where she met her husband.
gabberrella24 . 7y ago I work in probate. The oddest thing I've seen in a will is to euthanize their beloved horse, have it cremated and it's ashes scattered with the decedent. Lucky for her horse, she named a horse that was already dead so the one she got afterwards lived to see another farm.
KM4WDK 7y ago Me and a friend from middle school have an agreement that he gets 10 bucks out of my estate I also want all beneficiaries notified by a mysterious man in a dark suit preferably on a dark rainy day.
spiderqueendemon 7y ago My own grandmother specified which of the children and grandchildren should get which of the family recipes, and somehow felt the need to include commentary about why certain decisions were made. One recipe was this Prohibition era recipe for beer which I knew my uncle, also a home brewer, wanted, but she left it to me, with the comment that I know you wanted it, Teddy, but she has the second-best penmanship of the girls and will make you a copy.
PBandJoe . 7y ago When my great aunt whom I barely had any relationship with died, | discovered that in her will, she left me a taxidermied giant silk moth that she had hanging on her wall. Evidently someone told her about my love for bugs. I still have it and it's one of the coolest things in my collection of odd knickknacks. ...she left my cousin a Furby.
Womblechops 7y ago A relative worked for a firm preparing wills and was confronted by an Executor who had an edict to scatter the deceased's ashes from a microlight aircraft. Не couldn't fly one. She kindly pointed out to him that the drafting said nothing about whether said microlight was in flight at the time of scattering.

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