X-Message-Number: 10864 From: Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 08:42:02 EST Subject: Re: Trusts/ Law against Perpetuities Hello everyone. This is Rudi Hoffman back from a wonderful Thanksgiving reunion in Anderson, Indiana. Re: Thomas Donaldson, and others who have concerns about the "Law against perpetuities" in trusts. Most states have a law that a trust cannot provide directives for longer than The lifetime of anyone mentioned in the trust and an additional 21 years and 9 months past this point in time. Not all states have this, and obviously other countries have different laws. I do not think we should take this single facet of trust law and make it the overarching problem that many people have determined it to be. One solution may be the offshore trust mentioned in George Smith's posting. I do not think that a collectivist mentality suggested by Mr. Ettinger is the solution to all trust needs, that we simply determine that all assets go to our cryonics provider. More later. Rudi Hoffman Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10864