Sherman Hemsley died over two full months ago, but his body remains frozen in an El Paso funeral home as relatives and crackpots continue to fight over his remains and estate. According to Fox’s El Paso affiliate, Hemsley’s will left everything to a woman named Flora Isela Enchinton, who the story describes as “the woman he lived with” and “his business partner and friend of 20 years.” The problem is that a dude from Philadelphia named Richard Thornton who claims to be Hemsley’s brother is contesting the will, so a judge has ordered a DNA test to determine if the two are actually related. Also, there’s another estranged family member who is apparently upset because he says neither of them should get the body because Hemsley already has a burial plot in Philadelphia next to his mother.
I mention all this to bring up three points:
1) If at all possible, you should really try to avoid dying. It just seems like a big mess to me.
2) Do not contest wills. Only assholes contest wills. Unless you have a really good reason to believe there was fraud involved, or the person was actually incapacitated somehow while making it, just do not do it. It may suck that you got cut out, or that they had a change of heart, or that the person’s wishes do not jibe with your own particular wishes for them, but, hey, tough sh-t. You don’t get everything you want sometimes, and people have a right to do what they want with their stuff. You dragging a crapload of lawyers into it to haggle over everything wastes an incredible amount of time and money, and it’s just a real dick move in general. I repeat: do not contest wills.
3) I really, really hope my body does not end up frozen in El Paso for two months after I die.
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Put it on EBay – I’d make a $40 bid!
$70
Ted Williams head is unimpressed.
Flora Isela Enchinton? So the song was about him?
“Down in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl”
You dragging a crapload of lawyers into it to haggle over everything wastes an incredible amount of time and money…
Pfft, you’re just regretful that you didn’t pay more attention during Freezer Estate Planning 101 at El Paso State and missed out on such a lucrative career.
I guess you could say his assets is frozen.
*slow clap*
Thank you for your courage, sir.
You forgot:
*puts on sunglasses
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is why I am currently working on building a titanium cyborg body to make sure that I never die. And if I do end up having an unfortunate end before my cyborg body is ready, I’ve already decided I’m going to have a Viking Funeral. Yes, fighting over everything I leave behind will be useless because I plan for all of it to be loaded onto a longboat with me and set on fire as it drifts out to sea.
DG, what’s the deal with this, anyway? Shouldn’t a will be incontestable, except in cases you can prove fraud? I don’t know the law, but it seems like common sense.
Work sent me to El Paso for a few days last year. Being dead is the only way to endure it. Wish I’d thought of that.
Frozen in El Paso. Sounds like a Carrie Underwood number.
Going through it now, wife’s grandfather passed away earlier this year and her uncle had the will changed four days prior to his passing making the uncle the sole trustee. (There are a total of four siblings.) Sometimes shady shit does go down and lawyers do need to be involved. Sad but true.