Just yesterday, I got a phone call from the Saskatchewan Wills & Estates Registry that they began processing of my request for any and all information regarding the wills of both of Patrick Ross' late parents, as well as that of Patrick's maternal grandfather Ben Stamm. Requests like this typically take at least a couple of weeks to complete, so this is just a Public Service Announcement that, unlike Patrick, I do what I say I'm going to do.
Stay tuned ...
P.S. There is some irony in Patrick, currently doxxing people over on his Twitter account, whining to my lawyers about egregious violations of his privacy.
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The Ross Family wills are going to be hilarious: "To my son Patrick, I bequeath my VHS collection of Hee-Haw episodes, and my remaining 3.5 tins of Skoal." "To my daughter Jennifer, I leave the five remaining cans of Pilsner in the fridge, and my TacoTime gift card, which still has $9.78 remaining on it."
ROD: What will be more enlightening is what information I get that can be passed on to the Saskatchewan Sheriffs that they can use as part of their collection enforcement proceedings. I'm reasonably confident that I am legally entitled to seize anything and everything bequeathed to Patrick up to the value of the full amount he owes me (which will include all recent Sheriffs' costs that were incurred pursuant to their collection efforts).
The next few weeks should be ... interesting.
Is there any way that family can protect the house from seizure? Can the will leave the house to the entire group of siblings instead of just one of them? Or leave it to just one of them who then lets Patrick live there free of charge?
Anon @ 4:57 AM: I am not an estate lawyer, but I have no doubt that those hillbillies are cooking something up to try to protect Patrick's assets, and I have been advised that the authorities are more than familiar with the idiotic tricks played by truly stupid people to try to get away with stuff like this.
In particular, a common trick is to leave stuff to a different party, who then quietly hands it over to someone else under the table in order to beat collection proceedings. Unsurprisingly, authorities are well aware of attempts to do this and it rarely succeeds. In this case, it would be a dead giveaway if Patrick received nothing in the will, but continued to live at the Lloyd residence.
Again, I am not a lawyer, but I have very, very good people digging into this. We're not talking about a family of evil geniuses here.
Assuming the will is fairly “garden variety”, I imagine most of it is in the form of a few token bequests of items deemed to be of sentimental value, and the rest is basically “liquidate at fair market value and distribute it among the children / grandchildren”.
Seizing the house probably won’t be necessary, but you will be able to hang up distribution of funds quite nicely in the courts. If there are some shenanigans involving concealing distribution to Patrick, the court filings are going to get very interesting to read (for some value of interesting).
MgS: I guess it all comes down to the results of the will/estate search. I pretty much agree with your assessment -- clearance sale on Ken Ross' extensive collection of pickup trucks and vintage Playboys. I already have people prepped to step in as soon as I have more information, and that conceivably involves putting a hold on *any* financial transactions until a court approves. And if that collection of Clampetts decides to object, any further expenses I incur will simply be added to what Patrick owes me.
And now, we wait.
If you get results, are you allowed to publish them?
Anon @ 10:55 AM: Since anyone is entitled to file an application to do a will/estate search, it seems only logical that any results one gets can be published.
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