Sign here; sign here; initial there; print your name there; initial here and here; and sign there, there, and there. THUD
Okay, now you just have to wait two weeks for it to clear the rezoning period. It’s currently zoned as an eldritch monastery; you need it to be zoned for residential if you want it to be a lair and private, nonprofit laboratory.
They usually have to sell it for at least $1.00. It’s odd, but not too problematic, and it helps with a variety of problems that could crop up otherwise.
This is what they sometimes do with US Forest Service land. USFS can’t sell the land, so they lease it to a company for 99 years for $1.00.
One way to avoid the retirement home problem scenario is to create a trust, put the home into said trust, and the children are beneficiaries thereof. I don’t think the inheritance tax becomes an issue until the value goes past half a mill, but I ain’t no lawyer nor accountant.
I’m not a lawyer, but I suspect that would run into serious gift taxes. Gift taxes prevent people from avoiding the estate tax by giving their heirs everything just before they die.
Depends. If the invading mad scientist had made comments about “sparing your worthless life…BWah hah hah hah”", or words to that effect, a case could be made that such a consideration was not considered of value and therefore the transfer would be null and void…
Unless, of course, the parties involved got multiple independant valuations of said “life” by professionals in the business of valuing same. At least, that’s how we roll in the paperwork jungle where I work.
(TUNE: “By The Beautiful Sea”, Harold Atteridge & Harry Carroll)
By the Seal! By the Seal! By the Notary Seal,
I will state, “You must wait! Your estate isn’t real!”
Your plan has a slight defect,
So I must object
For the transfer has not been effected!
Hon, there’s a ton
Of these papers to sign!
Berenice, sign each piece
On the small dotted line!
Then you will see me seal beside where you just signed
There on the sign line … with the Notary Seal!
Ah hah, this is what Unity spent all that time learning. If there is enough paperwork, people will give up and go away (part of the reason some poor countries stay poor, too much paperwork).
So waitaminnit, Unity’s personal animal enlightenment is not enough for her to wield the magic notarial seal, but the addition of Dr. Lee’s consciousness does? This is all just too silly to take in… I am reaching my silly ceiling.
Well, IIRC, the requirement was *all* animals, and Unity hadn’t yet been in all of them, as she stated herself – remember, humans are animals too, while Unity’s not human, and probably hadn’t possessed one before – just their corpses (and usually parts from several at the same time), which is not quite the same. Hence, I figure it’s not so much Dr. Lee’s conciousness, as her being human – most likely, any other human would have worked as well, but like she said, she was the only one still there.
Silly? Well, yes – but I’d say it’s still (mostly) internally consistent, and not really any more silly than it already was in the first place… and silly is not the same as bad.
Perhaps the reason Unity couldn’t pick up Executor is because there is a very good chance that there are rules about the dead not being allowed to be a Notary (mainly to reduce the incidents of people putting a large bladed weapon through a notary’s heart then having them ‘sign’ an official document and if you can’t be an official Notary you can’t wield Executor.
Being in Dr Lee’s body would provide a valid loophole around any such rule.
and adding an exception (?addendum?) for Unity might allow her to wield Executor on her own – or maybe just being made an official Notary might be enough?
or, I need to stop reading webcomics at 2 in the morning :-p
Wait, is she wearing the bandana as a pointed up hair-tie?
Sign here; sign here; initial there; print your name there; initial here and here; and sign there, there, and there.
THUD
Okay, now you just have to wait two weeks for it to clear the rezoning period. It’s currently zoned as an eldritch monastery; you need it to be zoned for residential if you want it to be a lair and private, nonprofit laboratory.
And you wonder why Helen set up shop in a sewer. The easement already had all the necessary environmental impact statements approved!
You also can’t transfer property except in return for valuable consideration. It’s not entirely proper to just give the stuff away.
Would sparing your life count as “valuable consideration”?
What about a parent who wants to give their child the family home because they’re moving into a nursing home, or moving overseas? Can’t they do that?
They usually have to sell it for at least $1.00. It’s odd, but not too problematic, and it helps with a variety of problems that could crop up otherwise.
This is what they sometimes do with US Forest Service land. USFS can’t sell the land, so they lease it to a company for 99 years for $1.00.
One way to avoid the retirement home problem scenario is to create a trust, put the home into said trust, and the children are beneficiaries thereof. I don’t think the inheritance tax becomes an issue until the value goes past half a mill, but I ain’t no lawyer nor accountant.
I’m not a lawyer, but I suspect that would run into serious gift taxes. Gift taxes prevent people from avoiding the estate tax by giving their heirs everything just before they die.
Depends. If the invading mad scientist had made comments about “sparing your worthless life…BWah hah hah hah”", or words to that effect, a case could be made that such a consideration was not considered of value and therefore the transfer would be null and void…
Unless, of course, the parties involved got multiple independant valuations of said “life” by professionals in the business of valuing same. At least, that’s how we roll in the paperwork jungle where I work.
Sign here…and here…BAM! Legsweep!
BAM! LEGALSWEEP!
(TUNE: “By The Beautiful Sea”, Harold Atteridge & Harry Carroll)
By the Seal! By the Seal! By the Notary Seal,
I will state, “You must wait! Your estate isn’t real!”
Your plan has a slight defect,
So I must object
For the transfer has not been effected!
Hon, there’s a ton
Of these papers to sign!
Berenice, sign each piece
On the small dotted line!
Then you will see me seal beside where you just signed
There on the sign line … with the Notary Seal!
When I read this song, for some reason, I read it to the tune of “Song of the Dragonborn”, the theme song of Skyrim. The syllables fit.
I think she’d rather get stamped…
mnem
*Allergic to paperwork*
Wut-oh. This ain’t going to end well.
Ah hah, this is what Unity spent all that time learning. If there is enough paperwork, people will give up and go away (part of the reason some poor countries stay poor, too much paperwork).
Is Unity trying to solve problems WITHOUT violence?
…
I’m scared…
It’s the Stamp! It’s affecting her mind!
“Instead of a Dark Lord you shall have a Queen!” – Galadriel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX3px_Ivs44&list=WL346D9A9423D081DC&index=2&feature=plpp_video
I still suspect it’s because she’s become more of a gestalt entity with Dr. Lee
Trust me, paperwork can be PLENTY violent…
Yeah, where do you think they get all that red ink?
So waitaminnit, Unity’s personal animal enlightenment is not enough for her to wield the magic notarial seal, but the addition of Dr. Lee’s consciousness does? This is all just too silly to take in… I am reaching my silly ceiling.
Well, IIRC, the requirement was *all* animals, and Unity hadn’t yet been in all of them, as she stated herself – remember, humans are animals too, while Unity’s not human, and probably hadn’t possessed one before – just their corpses (and usually parts from several at the same time), which is not quite the same. Hence, I figure it’s not so much Dr. Lee’s conciousness, as her being human – most likely, any other human would have worked as well, but like she said, she was the only one still there.
Silly? Well, yes – but I’d say it’s still (mostly) internally consistent, and not really any more silly than it already was in the first place… and silly is not the same as bad.
off topic for today’s page, but ….
Perhaps the reason Unity couldn’t pick up Executor is because there is a very good chance that there are rules about the dead not being allowed to be a Notary (mainly to reduce the incidents of people putting a large bladed weapon through a notary’s heart then having them ‘sign’ an official document
and if you can’t be an official Notary you can’t wield Executor.
Being in Dr Lee’s body would provide a valid loophole around any such rule.
and adding an exception (?addendum?) for Unity might allow her to wield Executor on her own – or maybe just being made an official Notary might be enough?
or, I need to stop reading webcomics at 2 in the morning :-p
and if I continue to fall asleep mid-post, I need to look for new comments when I wake up before I click “post comment”
The true power of bureaucracy unleashed. It is greater and more terrible than I would have ever imagined…