Married, With Assets

摘要

Miami lawyer Nelson C. Keshen and Talma, his wife of 45 years, have always had simple"I love you" wills leaving all their assets to each other directly. That's remarkable, considering he has spent decades drafting more complicated estate plans for other affluent couples-plans designed to minimize estate taxes by putting some assets of the first spouse to die into a "bypass" trust for the kids. But regardless of tax costs, Keshen says, he didn't want his own widow (should he die first) to have "to account to my children or grandchildren."