
Forgiving loans in your will can be effective
June 28, 2019 Last weekend my wife, Carolyn, and I were sorting through some boxes of paperwork in her mother’s basement. We stumbled across the last will and testament of Carolyn’s great, great, great-grandfather, Richard Clark. It was signed by him on June 11, 1903. A few lines in his will stood out to me: “I give, devise and bequeath to my dear wife, Rachel, the brick part of the house in which we now