Eventual fate of our machines

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_freegate.com>
Date: Wed Oct 7 10:40:34 1998

At 08:10 AM 10/7/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Phase three: Finding the collection a new home (After I'm gone)
> This is the tough one. In the wrong hands the collection might
>just go to a landfill and that would be a real shame. I have no kids so
>there is no one to carry on the tradition.

This is what wills are for, insuring that your stuff is taken care of the
way you want it to be taken care of. One way to do this in the US is with
a 'living trust.' You create a trust and transfer title of your collection
to it, in the trust you and your wife are trustees. Then you specify a
successor trustee (say some local technology museum) and then when you are
gone the control of the assets moves (without probate!) to the sucessor
trustee. In the trust you can limit what the trustee can do with the trust
assets, including disposing in landfills.

--Chuck
Received on Wed Oct 07 1998 - 10:40:34 BST