The University of Missouri refused to play @uiowa because we had a black guy on our team. In response, Iowa refused to play Missouri for the next 100 years.
Never forget that his Dad graduated from MIT and his Mom from Harvard. He would probably be curing cancer if he wasn’t so good at hitting baseballs far
This plumber I went to high school with skipped college completely.
Started as an apprentice at $17 an hour at 19.
Now 37, owns his own small plumbing company, clears $172k working 4 days a week.
No student loans. No Slack after 5pm. No bullshit performance reviews.
Still drives a 2016 truck and lives in the same neighborhood.
Half my college friends with masters degrees making $58k are miserable and quietly jealous as hell.
Father dies at 81. $2.7M estate. Three adult kids.
He set up a trust in 1998. Never updated it.
Kids can't touch principal until age 65. They're currently 52, 49, and 46.
The trustee? His brother who died 6 years ago. Nobody caught it.
Now a bank is the successor trustee. Charging $36,400/year in fees.
The trust references his "wife" getting income. She died in 2015. He remarried in 2017.
His second wife gets nothing. The trust still pays his first wife's estate.
His 52-year-old daughter is a teacher. Makes $78K. Renting an apartment.
She gets $14K/year from the trust but can't access principal to buy a house.
The trust was written when his estate was $800K. Nobody adjusted for $2.7M.
"Dad was so careful about planning."
26 years ago. Tax laws have changed many times. His family changed twice.
He spent $5K on that trust in 1998. Never spent another dollar reviewing it.
Now his kids are paying attorneys $40K to petition the court for trust reformation.
The court might fix some of it. Decanting could help. But it's expensive, time-consuming, and not guaranteed.
They're not fighting over money. They're fighting a document written for a different family in a different tax code.
Your estate plan has an expiration date. Just because it's signed doesn't mean it still works.
Review your estate plan every few years and with any major life change (births, deaths, marriage, divorce) . Or pay for your kids to fix it in court later.
My 87 year old grandfather just found out that silver is currently $110 per ounce and he been yelling blaming my grandma all day long for making him sell at $7 in 1998.
FBI headquarters is named after J. Edgar Hoover, who used State power to destroy MLK’s reputation, undermine his movement, and encourage him to kill himself. If you value “fairness and justice,” denounce Hoover’s legacy, rename the building, and exonerate everyone you railroaded.
I speak fluent Somali,Swahili, Arabic, intermediate Italian and Russian.
My parents speak fluent Italian, Russian, French, Arabic, Somali , Swahili.
I speak English because I’m required to communicate with degenerates like you.
THIS is the Homer G. Phillips Hospital I learned about growing up. My dad was their chief resident in ophthalmology at a time when minorities were not allowed to work or train at other hospitals. A significant chapter in STL history and my family history. @STLCityGov