A woman who claims her children never visit her, even when she's sick, has decided to leave her $2.8 million fortune to her cats and dogs, according to a report.
The woman from Shanghai, who is simply called Liu, excluded her three children from her will. Instead, she plans to leave about 20 million yuan ($2.8 million) to her pets, as she says they have been her only solace/companionship in old age, according to a report in the South China Morning Post newspaper. citing the newspaper “Zonglan News”.
Liu, according to the report, made an initial will a few years ago, leaving her three children money and property, but changed her mind because she was not visited, cared for and rarely contacted.
In her new will she insists she wants all money to go towards the care of her pets and any offspring, with a local veterinary clinic appointed as her trustee heritage her, taking care of the animals.
She herself wanted to leave all her money directly to her pets, but that is not legal in Chinaan official of the Wills Registration Center in Beijing told the “South China Morning Post” newspaper.
“However, there are alternatives to solve this issue,” Chen Kai said. “Liu's new will is one-way and we would advise her to nominate a person she trusts to oversee the veterinary clinic to ensure the pets are properly cared for.”
Another agency official said Liu was warned about the dangers of such a decision. “We told Liu that if her children change their attitude towards her, she could always change her will again,” the official said, however.
According to the newspaper, the story has sparked a heated online debate in China. “How disappointed and devastated she must have been, to make the decision to leave nothing to her children,” commented one…
Source: News Beast
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