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Managing The Stress ~ Making The Decisions ~ Discovering The Meaning |
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Solutions To Your Caregiving Situations Throughout Your Caregiving Years |
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Promised! Setting a Place for Fair You decide to talk about the inheritance; you call a family meeting to discuss how and when possessions will be distributed. Your care recipient has requested lists be made of who wants what. Or, your care recipient has died without indicating in the will who will receive the contents of the house. How do you fairly divide the possessions? Fair division of possessions is almost impossible. But, a fair mechanism to divide the possessions can be used. Here are some ideas: 1. Hold a raffle. Each family member picks a number out of the hat. Each family member takes a turn selecting a possession based on the number he or she picks. If your brother, Rick, picks the Number 1, then he selects first; your sister, Sylvia, who picks Number 2, selects next, etc. 2. If more than one family member indicates they would like the same possession, then put the names of all interest parties in a hat. The name that is selected becomes the owner of the possession. 3. Sell all the possessions and divide the proceeds. 4. Take turns sharing a prized family possession; a family treasure (family Bible, family piano, family jewelry) spends five years with each sibling before moving on to the next sibling's home. |
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