[Elecraft] SK Station Disposition

[Walter Underwood]

What kind of person would put a list of states in almost, but not quite, reverse alphabetical order?

wunder
K6WRU

> On Apr 24, 2022, at 7:19 PM, Edward Mccann <edwmccann at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> To Ed’s point:
> 
> “Some states recognize memorandums of personal property as legally binding, but there are 20 states that don’t categorize them as legitimate legal documents, including West Virginia, Vermont, Texas, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Ohio, Oklahoma, New Hampshire, North Carolina, New York, Mississippi, Kentucky, Maryland, Louisiana, Illinois, Alabama, Georgia, and Connecticut.”
> 
> 
> Ed McCann
> AG6CX
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Apr 24, 2022, at 7:08 PM, Edward Dauer <edauer at aya.yale.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Related to the thread on helping other hams' families deal with their
>> stations after they go SK, there is an idea that I think I mentioned on the
>> Reflector a couple of years ago, but which may be worth repeating given
>> that the general subject has come up again.  I have to begin but saying
>> that, though a lawyer myself, I should not be understood as offering legal
>> advice with the following note.  I mention it only as something anyone
>> interested might want to pursue with their own counsel.
>> 
>> Wills are complex instruments and, by themselves, sometimes cumbersome in
>> dealing with personal property -- like amateur radio equipment -- that may
>> change in shape and value over time.  Amending a will can sometimes be a
>> big, by which I mean costly, deal.  In many states, if not most, there is
>> another way.  It's called various things in various places, though where I
>> live it's called a Memorandum Disposition of Personal Property.  It's a
>> document that anyone can write, amend, tear up, whatever, at any time
>> without going through the trouble of amending a will or a trust.  If the
>> Will correctly refers to it, the document becomes an effective way of
>> directing the disposition of tangible personal property.  Using the proper
>> form at the outset I can describe what I want to have happen to my station,
>> or any piece of it, in a simple document that alone can write.  If the
>> equipment list changes, and I want to change where the rest goes, I can
>> change the Memorandum.  No need to amend the Will or a testamentary trust.
>> 
>> I should stop there, and say only that it's not widely known but t's worth
>> looking into.
>> 
>> Ted, KN1CBR
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