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Originally posted by greeklawgirl
"NOOOO! Its life-in-being-plus-21-years!!!"
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Don't forget the UNBORN WIDOW!!! Aaarrrrrrrrrrgggggghhhhh!!!
Can I tell you how much I hate that little hooker???
For those of you are have been smart enough to avoid law school so far - the "unborn widow" is the idea that you could write a will leaving property to "my wife" but that isn't necessarily certain who your wife is, even if you're currently married.
For example, say Mr. X is 30 and married to Mrs. X. He writes a will leaving property to "my wife" but doesn't identify her by name.
Mrs. X divorces Mr. X 10 years later, when he's 40 because she catches him in a weird tryst involving triplets, a goat, and Kraft-mac-and-cheese. (law school casebooks are like this - no one ever "just gets divorced" or "just dies" - they are mushed into bits or beheaded or something really gruesome)
20 years later, when Mr. X is 60, Miss A is born.
20 years after that, Mr. X (now 80) meets Miss A (now 20)
Mr. X (aka sleazy old man) marries Miss A. He dies shortly thereafter.
Miss A is the "unborn widow" because she wasn't born yet when he made the gift/wrote the will. She was a future person.
So now everyone is going to sue about how to define "my wife" in the will. And I will have to read about it in some heavy $100 book. Fabulous.
Doesn't everyone just want to sign up for law school now???