How about advising a terminally ill widowed grandma to marry her much-beloved granddaughter at the deathbed? Won't the estate pass to the surviving spouse intact? I'm not a lawyer, but I think it will -- without IRS getting the bite out of it as would happen now.(Smacks forehead.) Wow! Brilliant! Why didn't I think of that?
And it would be very hard to have a sound legal argument against such marriage. Isn't it born out of love? Absolutely. But doesn't it go against the prohibition of marriage with a blood relative? But this prohibition is rooted merely in the very same authority that also prohibits the same-sex union, and hence could survive juducial review if litigation results.
Sunday, June 28, 2015
ALWAYS THINKING, THESE RIGHT-WINGERS
The American Thinker's Vel Nirtist claims to have devised a fiendishly clever way to use this week's gay marriage ruling to get around the estate tax:
You didn't think of that because you're not a fucking imbecile!
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And, maybe Grandma can marry a few other grandchildren at the same time - because polygamy was once pretty traditional, and in the Bible, too!
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh...
That must be some rich grandma to have the IRS take a bite out of her estate.
ReplyDeletePeople have been using trusts to do this for ages. I guess Vel Nirtist should really consult a tax attorney.
ReplyDeletePayment on death accounts, survivorship estates to name two possibilities. Does this idiot know anything about probate?
ReplyDelete"American Thinker" is the perfect case of unintentional irony.
ReplyDeleteVel has obviously been thinking of ways to get back into grandma's will. Or sex with granny. Wither way.
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