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06/17/2026

06/17/2026

🧱 When an estate has no one obvious to inherit, the money follows a clear order of fallbacks before the state ever sees it.

For accounts with a beneficiary form, like an IRA or life insurance, the contingent beneficiary you named takes first.

If that person has died and the form reads per stirpes, the share passes to their descendants rather than disappearing.

In a will, an anti-lapse law can redirect a deceased relative's gift to their descendants, though it does not cover gifts to friends or charities.

Anything with no living taker drops into the will's residuary, and a gift to a closed charity is redirected to a similar one only if a court applies the cy pres doctrine.

With no valid will at all, state intestacy law sets the order of heirs, moving from spouse and children outward to more distant relatives.

Only when a diligent search finds no living heir and no will does an estate permanently escheat to the state.

Even then, a rightful heir who simply cannot be located does not lose out, because the share is held as reclaimable unclaimed property that stays searchable for years.

The order of heirs, the anti-lapse rules, and the dormancy periods all vary by state, so an executor should confirm the local rules with the probate court or an estate attorney.



*The content shared here is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not personalized investment, tax, legal, or financial advice. Consult a licensed professional before making decisions based on your specific situation.*

06/17/2026

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06/08/2026

Times are tough, but you're tougher!

06/07/2026

Your parents' $100k salary in the 90s would need to be $255,000 today just to match the same purchasing power.

Most Americans earn $80k.

The gap between those two numbers is the entire story of why everything feels harder than it should.

The viral post says $325k. The BLS inflation calculator puts it closer to $255k. Either way the conclusion is the same and it hits just as hard.

The middle class lifestyle most people grew up watching their parents live, the house, the cars, the vacations, the college savings, the retirement contributions...

all of it funded on one or two incomes that would be considered modest today, that lifestyle now requires an income most households will never see.

Think about what $100k actually bought in 1995.

The median home price was around $130,000. A new car averaged $15,000. Health insurance was a fraction of what it costs today. College tuition at a state school ran about $3,000 a year. Gas was under $1.20 a gallon.

Now run those same categories in 2026.

Median home price around $420,000. New car averaging over $50,000. Family health insurance premiums running $25,000 a year before you hit a deductible. State school tuition averaging $11,000 a year. Gas hovering around $3.50.

Costs went up dramatically. Wages didn't follow. In 2024 national wages grew just 1.3% while inflation ran at 2.9%. That gap compounds every single year in one direction.

The people who feel like they're doing everything right and still falling behind aren't imagining it. The numbers back them up completely.

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