Simple Language for Wills
RESIDUAL BEQUEST
This gift ensures your loved ones and friends are provided for first and gives SVDP whatever is left over.
“I devise the residual of my estate, after the satisfaction of all specific bequests and payment of all taxes and other costs attending my death, to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, District Council of Cincinnati, Tax # 31-0537510, with principal offices currently located at 1125 Bank Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45214.”
SPECIFIC BEQUEST
This gift states a fixed dollar amount, a percentage of your estate, or a specific asset to go to SVDP. This could include gifts of cash, securities, or personal property to be designated to SVDP.
“I bequeath (the sum of $_______) or ( ______% of the net value of estate) or (describe the specific asset to be gifted) to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, District Council of Cincinnati, Tax # 31-0537510, with principal offices currently located at 1125 Bank Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45214.”