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Remember When You Named Your Girlfriend as a Beneficiary? He Didn't Either

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Re: Remember When You Named Your Girlfriend as a Beneficiary? He Didn't Either

#5

If I was on the receiving end of something like this I’d just give the money back.

May not be that easy.

Sounds like “disclaiming” must take place within 9 months of death.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/06/refuseinheritance.a...

Re: Remember When You Named Your Girlfriend as a Beneficiary? He Didn't Either

#7

If I was on the receiving end of something like this I’d just give the money back.

> back To whom? The deceased person?

The deceased person's estate, yeah. Often it's possible to simply disclaim an inheritance and you would therefore never receive the money; but sometimes that means it would go to your heirs.

With a $1M account, it's a lot easier to say you would return it than to actually do it though. That's life changing money and it's hard to say no to life changing money.

Re: Remember When You Named Your Girlfriend as a Beneficiary? He Didn't Either

#8

If I was on the receiving end of something like this I’d just give the money back.

> back To whom? The deceased person?

Yeah. To their "estate". It's mentioned that some of his assets that didn't have a beneficiary named landed there and I think they were to be split according to the will of the deceased.

Re: Remember When You Named Your Girlfriend as a Beneficiary? He Didn't Either

#9

If I was on the receiving end of something like this I’d just give the money back.

> back To whom? The deceased person?

To the estate, in which case the next beneficiary gets the ducats. After the ones that are named in the testament, the law specifies beneficiaries.
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