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On her death in April 1998, Paul
McCartney's wife, a crusader for animal
rights and vegetarianism, left her
substantial fortune to the former
Beatle.
I, LINDA LOUISE McCARTNEY,
a citizen of the United States residing
at _____________________________,
declare this to be my Will, revoking
all prior Wills and codicils.
FIRST: I give my residuary
estate, defined as the residue of
my estate, real and personal, including
lapsed gifts, after deduction of taxes
and other charges to the extent provided
in Paragraphs A and B of Article EIGHTH
as follows:
A. If my husband, JAMES PAUL
McCARTNEY, survives me, I give
my residuary estate to my trustees
in a separate trust to be known as
the qualified domestic marital trust.
My trustees shall pay the net income
of this trust at least quarterly to
my husband from the date of my death
and as long as he lives, and subject
to Article SECOND hereof, my trustees
shall also pay to my said husband
such sum or sums from principal, up
to the whole thereof, as my trustee
who is an individual citizen of the
United States or which is a domestic
corporation deems advisable in his,
her or its sole discretion. Upon my
husband's death my trustees shall
pay over the remaining principal of
this trust in equal shares to such
of my children, HEATHER LOUISE
McCARTNEY, MARY ANNA McCARTNEY,
STELLA NINA McCARTNEY and JAMES
LOUIS McCARTNEY, as survive my
husband, and to the issue then living
of each of them who shall have predeceased
my husband leaving issue then living,
such issue to divide per stirpes the
share the child of mine would have
received if living.
B. If my husband does not survive
me, I give my residuary estate in
equal shares to such of my children
named in Paragraph A hereof who survive
me, and to the issue then living of
each of them who shall have predeceased
me, such issue to divide per stirpes
the share the child of mine would
have received if living.
SECOND: A. If the trust
arising under Paragraph A of Article
FIRST hereof is divided pursuant
to Paragraph R of Article FIFTH into
two or more separate trusts, I direct
that any principal distributions to
my husband shall be made first from
the trust which my executors have
elected to qualify for the marital
deduction, and then from the trust
which they have elected not to qualify
for the marital deduction. Upon any
such principal distribution to my
husband, or upon his death, my trustees
shall deduct from such payment or
the remaining trust principal, as
the case may be, and pay to the appropriate
taxing authorities any estate tax,
including interest and penalties thereon,
payable by reason of such distribution,
all in accordance with the provisions
of the final paragraph of Article
SIXTH hereof.
B. The trustees of the qualified
domestic marital trust shall at all
times meet the requirements of Treasury
regulations under the Code, if any,
prescribed to ensure the collection
of the estate tax imposed upon such
trust, including without limitation
any requirement that trust property
be situated in the United States,
that there be a trustee which is a
bank or an institution with substantial
United States assets, that a bond
or other security for the payment
of estate tax be furnished to the
Internal Revenue Service, or that
any returns, statements or other documents
be filed with the Internal Revenue
Service.
THIRD: If pursuant to this
Will any property, real or personal,
and whether principal or income, becomes
payable to a person who is an infant
(defined for the purposes of this
Will as a person under age twenty-one),
I authorize my fiduciaries in their
sole discretion to pay over such property
in whole or in part at any time and
from time to time to a parent or duly
appointed guardian of such infant,
to a custodian under a Uniform Gifts
or Transfers to Minors Act (including
my executors or trustees or any of
them) who may act until such infant
attains age twenty-one, or to any
individual with whom such infant resides,
for the use and benefit of such infant,
or directly to such infant by way
of an allowance or otherwise; or to
cause my fiduciaries to retain such
property as donees of powers in trust
on behalf of such infant and to pay
over the same to such infant upon
his or her attaining age twenty-one
or, in the event such person dies
before attaining such age, to his
or her estate. While such property
is held by such donees they shall
have with respect thereto all the
powers of a guardian of such property
appointed by a court and in addition
all the powers conferred upon my fiduciaries
hereunder, including without limitation
the power to sell, mortgage or lease
real property, and they are further
authorized to pay over to such infant
such part or all of the income and
principal as such donees deem proper
for the maintenance, support, health,
education or welfare of such infant.
Such donees may retain without judicial
authorization commissions' at the
rates of annual commissions allowed
from time to time to testamentary
trustees under the laws of the State
of New York.
I appoint my husband and my brother,
JOHN LINDENER EASTMAN, to be
the executors of and trustees under
this Will. I authorize my said brother
(and any individual successor to him)
to appoint an individual or corporation
to act as cotrustee with the then
acting trustees, or to act as successor
executor or trustee if for any reason
he or she ceases to act prior to the
complete administration of my estate
or of the qualified domestic marital
trust, as the case may be.
At least one trustee of the qualified
domestic marital trust shall be an
individual citizen of the United States
or a domestic corporation of the United
States within the meaning of Section
7701(a)(4) of the Code or any successor
provision thereto at all times during
the administration of such trust.
If at any time there is no trustee
of the qualified domestic marital
trust who is an individual citizen
of the United States or a domestic
corporation of the United States,
notwithstanding anything contained
herein to the contrary, the other
trustee or trustees then acting shall
appoint an individual citizen of the
United States or a domestic corporation
of the United States to act as a co-trustee
of said trust.
Except as otherwise specifically
provided, the terms "executors" and
"trustees" as used in this Will are
intended to include the executors
or executor and the trustees or trustee
respectively acting hereunder from
time to time. Such executors and trustees
are sometimes referred to individually
as "fiduciary" and collectively as
"fiduciaries."
Each appointment of a fiduciary in
accordance herewith shall be by an
acknowledged written instrument. Any
such instrument may appoint one or
more additional individuals or corporations
as alternates to act in the event
the individual or corporation first
designated is for any reason unable
or unwilling to serve. Any such designation
may be withdrawn or altered by any
individual empowered to make the same
at any time prior to the occurrence
of the vacancy it is designed to fill.
Any such successor executor or trustee
shall qualify by an instrument in
writing signed, acknowledged and filed
with the court having primary jurisdiction
of my estate.
No bond or other security shall be
required in any jurisdiction of any
fiduciary named herein or appointed
as herein provided. No one of them
shall be liable or responsible for
the acts and defaults of any other,
and none of them shall be required
to file or render periodic accounts
in any court. Any fiduciary may resign
at any time without the permission
of any court or person, by an instrument
in writing signed and acknowledged
by such fiduciary and filed with the
court having primary jurisdiction
of my estate.
No fiduciary shall participate in
the exercise of discretion with respect
to the payment of income or principal,
the termination of a trust, or the
allocation of receipts and expenditures
between income and principal, where
a permissible beneficiary is either
such fiduciary in an individual capacity,
such fiduciary's spouse, or a person
to whom such fiduciary in an individual
capacity owes a legal obligation of
support.
If ancillary or separate administration
of my property in any jurisdiction
becomes necessary or desirable, I
authorize my executors to be, or to
designate an individual or a bank
or trust company (including one or
more of my executors) to be, ancillary
executors or executor or to occupy
such other fiduciary position as may
be appropriate to accomplish this
purpose under the law of such jurisdiction
and I appoint the fiduciaries or fiduciary
so designated; provided, however,
that none of my said executors shall
be entitled to dual commissions as
my primary executor and as such fiduciary
with respect to the same assets. The
fiduciaries or fiduciary acting pursuant
to this paragraph shall have, with
respect to the property subject to
such ancillary or separate administration,
all of the rights, powers, privileges,
discretions, exemptions and immunities
granted to, as well as the duties
and liabilities imposed upon, my executors
by this Will, including exemption
from bond and any requirement to file
or render periodic accounts in any
court, and upon completion of their
administration they shall pay over
the assets subject to their control
to my executors.
FIFTH: In addition to the
powers provided by law, I authorize
my fiduciaries in their discretion,
until final distribution, and without
applying to any court for permission
or for instructions in regard thereto,
as follows:
A. To receive from any person,
to retain and to invest and reinvest
in any domestic or foreign stocks,
bonds, mutual funds, common trust
funds or other securities, and other
real or personal property (including
without limitation investments in
general or limited partnerships or
other forms of investment made in
common with others including other
fiduciaries), whether or not authorized
by law for the investment of trust
funds, regardless of any rule regarding
diversity of trust investments; to
invest in money market mutual funds
or similar investment funds notwithstanding
that a fiduciary hereunder may directly
or indirectly manage or render services
to such funds and receive compensation
from such funds.
B. To sell at public or private
sale, grant options on, exchange or
otherwise dispose of any property
or any interest therein at such times
and upon such terms and conditions,
including credit and upon purchase
money mortgages, as shall seem proper
and to give good and sufficient instruments
of transfer and to receive the proceeds
of any such disposition.
C. To manage, maintain and insure
any property and to lease the same
for such periods, irrespective of
any statutory period otherwise applicable
(all such leases to be in all respects
binding upon all persons interested
in my estate or in any trust), and
on such terms., limitations and conditions,
including provisions for renewals,
as shall seem advantageous, and if
advisable to pay for the value of
any improvements made by a tenant
under any such lease; to incur, extend
or renew mortgage indebtedness; to
make ordinary and extraordinary repairs
and alterations to any building, to
raze or erect buildings and to make
improvements or to abandon any buildings
or property; and to make any agreement
of partition of such property and
to give or receive money or other
property in connection therewith.
D. To exercise or sell all rights,
options, powers and privileges, and
to vote in person or by proxy, respecting
any stocks, bonds or other securities,
all as fully as might be done by persons
owning similar property in their own
right.
E. To assent to, oppose and participate
in any reorganization, recapitalization,
merger, consolidation or similar proceeding,
to deposit securities, delegate discretionary
powers, pay assessments or other expenses
and exchange property, all as fully
as might be done by persons owning
similar property in their own right.
F. To organize or join with others
in organizing a corporation under
the laws of any jurisdiction for the
purpose of acquiring any interest
in property held hereunder, to convey
to such corporation in exchange for
its securities any such property or
interest, to retain such securities
as an investment, and to act as officers
and directors of such corporation
and be compensated therefor.
G. To borrow money from any person
or corporation, including a fiduciary
hereunder, as may be necessary to
pay taxes or to aid in the execution
of any authority or power held hereunder,
and to give notes for the sums so
borrowed and pledge or mortgage any
property as security therefor.
H. To extend or modify any note
or bond and mortgage held hereunder,
to foreclose any mortgage or take
title to the property secured thereby
in lieu of foreclosure, and to protect
any such property against forfeiture.
I. To settle or compromise, by
arbitration or otherwise, all claims.
J. To register, transfer or hold
any securities in nominee name or,
to the extent permitted by applicable
law, in bearer form or in the name
or names of any other appropriate
person, but with full responsibility
therefor.
K. To employ or retain such accountants,
legal counsel, custodians and investment
counsel and other agents and advisors,
including any firm with which any
fiduciary may be affiliated, as may
seem advisable and to delegate authority
thereto, and to compensate them from
the funds of my estate or the qualified
domestic marital trust, as the case
may be; and specifically to employ
a fiduciary or any of such fiduciary's
affiliates to render brokerage or
other services.
L. To make payment from time to
time on account of commissions and
counsel fees without requiring the
payment of interest and without obtaining
security for repayment.
M. To make an equitable division
of any property and to pay over portions
or undivided interests in cash or
in kind (valued as of the date of
distribution), and to cause any share
to be composed of property different
in kind from any other share.
N. To pay over income or principal
to any beneficiary by applying the
same directly for the benefit of such
beneficiary.
0. To pay from my general estate
all reasonable expenses of the storage
and delivery of tangible personal
property.
P. To determine whether to claim
deductions available to me or to my
estate on estate tax or on income
tax returns.
Q. To allocate any available exemption
from the generation-skipping transfer
tax under Section 2632 of the Code
to any qualified property whether
or not such property is included in
my probate estate and to exclude any
such property from such allocation.
R. To divide the qualified domestic
marital trust, prior to its initial
funding, into two or more separate
trusts on a fractional basis so that
the federal generation-skipping transfer
tax inclusion ratio for one or more
such trusts shall be zero and such
ratio for the other such trust or
trusts shall be one, and so that my
executors may elect to qualify one
or more of such trusts for the federal
estate tax marital deduction without
electing to so qualify all such trusts;
and to combine such trusts into one
trust if at any time my fiduciaries
in their discretion conclude that
such division is no longer necessary.
S. To delegate any duties or powers,
discretionary or otherwise, to a co-fiduciary
for periods and upon terms and conditions
designated in a revocable written
instrument signed and delivered to
such co-fiduciary, except that no
fiduciary may exercise through delegation
any power from which such fiduciary
is by law or the terms of this Will
expressly excluded.
T. To pay all necessary or proper
expenses and charges from income or
principal, or partly from each, in
such manner as may seem equitable
and compatible with Article SIXTH.
U. To elect pursuant to Section
2652(a)(3) of the Code to treat me
as the transferor, for purposes of
the generation-skipping transfer tax,
of all or any portion of the property
includible in my federal gross estate
that qualifies for the marital deduction
pursuant to an election by my executors
under Section 2056(b)(7) of the Code.
No person dealing with my fiduciaries
shall be required to inquire into
the necessity or propriety of any
transaction or into the application
of any money or property paid or delivered.
I understand the general rule of
law (commonly referred to as the rule
against "self-dealing" or as the rule
of '$undivided loyalty") under which
actions, decisions or transactions
by a fiduciary are held to be void
or voidable if the fiduciary is directly
or.indirectly interested therein in
his individual capacity. It is my
firm belief that it will be in the
best interests of the beneficiaries
of the trust arising hereunder if
my fiduciaries are free to perform
their duties as fiduciaries hereunder
without regard to such rule of law
and I hereby specifically direct that
my fiduciaries be allowed to perform
their duties hereunder without regard
to such rule of law.
SIXTH: The gift for my
husband under Article FIRST
is intended to qualify for the marital
deduction under the Code to the extent
permitted by law and to the extent
of my executors, election. Accordingly,
the powers and duties, discretionary
and otherwise, conferred upon my fiduciaries
shall be exercised only in such manner
as shall be consistent with the allowance
of such marital deduction.
The gift for my husband under Article
SECOND is also intended to
qualify as an "interest in possession"
for the benefit of my husband for
UK inheritance tax purposes. Accordingly,
subject to the provisions of the first
paragraph of this Article which shall
have priority, the powers.and duties,
discretionary and otherwise, conferred
upon my fiduciary shall also be exercisable
only in such manner as shall be consistent
with there being such interest in
possession. For the purposes of this
provision the term "interest in possession"
shall have the meaning it has for
the purposes of Section 49 of the
Inheritance Tax Act 1984 or any statutory
modification or reenactment of such
section.
Except to the extent that other assets
of my estate are not sufficient, there
shall not be allocated to such gift
any asset or the proceeds of any asset
(A) with respect to which any death
taxes are paid to any foreign jurisdiction,
or (B) which does not qualify for
such marital deduction. In the event
that other assets of my estate are
not sufficient to fund such gift in
full, such insufficiency shall be
satisfied by allocating the assets
enumerated above in descending order
of preference, no resort to be made
to an asset of a subsequent group
until all assets of the prior group
are fully allocated.
If any asset of the qualified domestic
marital trust is so substantially
unproductive of income as to deprive
my husband of that degree of enjoyment
of the trust which is contemplated
by Section 2056 of the Code, then
upon the written request of my husband
my trustees within a reasonable time
thereafter shall make the asset productive
or convert it into other property
which will produce an appropriate
income. It is my intention that my
husband shall be entitled to receive
that degree of benefit from the trust
which is requisite for the allowance
of,the marital deduction. My husband
shall have the exclusive right to
the use and enjoyment of any real
or tangible personal property at any
time held in the qualified domestic
marital trust and he shall be entitled
to receive any rental income produced
by such property. No payments of income
or principal may be made from a marital
trust to a child or more remote descendant
of mine having an interest in the
remainder thereof until after my husband
has died.
I direct that the determination of
all inheritance, estate and similar
taxes (but not generation-skipping
transfer taxes), and any interest
and penalties thereon, whether federal,
state or foreign, attributable to
any qualified terminable interest
property passing to my husband by
reason of my death which is includible
in my husband's estate pursuant to
Section 2044 of the Code or any comparable
state or foreign statute shall be
made in accordance with the procedure
set forth in Section 2207A of the
Code, unless my husband's Will makes
specific provision otherwise.
I direct that the taxes (including
interest and penalties) attributable
pursuant to Section 2056A of the Code
to the qualified domestic marital
trust upon distributions of principal
or upon the death of my husband shall
be determined and paid in accordance
with said Section 2056A, unless my
husband's Will makes specific provision
otherwise.
SEVENTH: If a qualified
domestic marital trust should at any
time appear to be of a size which
my fiduciaries in their sole discretion
believe would make it unnecessary
or inadvisable to fund or continue
such trust, the principal thereof
shall be distributed outright to my
husband.
EIGHTH: A. I direct my
executors to pay the expenses of my
last illness and funeral, and to pay
from the principal of the residue
of my estate described in Article
FIRST before any division thereof,
all inheritance, estate or similar
taxes (but not including generation-skipping
transfer taxes), and interest and
penalties thereon, payable to any
jurisdiction in respect of any property
includible in my estate for the purpose
of determining the amount of such
tax, whether or not passing under
this Will, excluding, however, any
such taxes imposed in respect of any
trust that is includible in my estate
for purposes of any such tax which
shall be paid from such trust in accordance
with the apportionment law of the
State of New York in effect at my
death, except as provided in the following
paragraph.
If at my death any property is includible
in my estate for such tax purposes
pursuant to Section 2044 of the Code
or any comparable state or foreign
statute, I direct that all such taxes
of any jurisdiction, and interest
and penalties thereon, attributable
to such property shall be determined
and recovered in accordance with the
provisions of the instrument under
which such interest arises.
B. I direct that all generation-skippinq
transfer taxes arising upon my death
under Chapter 13 of the Code or under
any state statute shall be paid in
accordance with such Chapter or statute.
C. Dividends and distributions
received upon securities of corporations,
associations or investment companies
shall be allocated to income or principal
as follows, notwithstanding any provision
of law to the contrary: (I) if received
in cash, or if receivable in cash
at the option of the stockholder,
to income. (II) If received in stock
of the declarer or in any other security
or property, to principal. (III) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, if paid in whole or
partial liquidation of the declarer,
to principal. my fiduciaries shall
resolve any doubt concerning the application
of the foregoing directions and may
fairly allocate between income and
principal any receipt as to which
provision is not made herein, and
subject to Article SIXTH their
decision shall be conclusive upon
all persons interested in my estate
or in any trust.
D. If my fiduciaries invest in
debt securities at a premium over
par value, they shall not provide
a sinking fund from the income of
such securities to absorb such premium.
My fiduciaries shall not treat as
income any part of any profit realized
upon the sale or redemption of any
security acquired at a discount from
par value, except in the case of securities
customarily bought and sold on a discount
basis.
NINTH: A. A disposition
of income or principal herein to the
issue of a designated person shall
be payable to such issue per stirpes,
and such disposition shall be deemed
to require a primary division into
as many shares as there are children
of such person either then living
or represented by then living issue,
regardless of whether or not there
actually is a child of such person
then living.
B. A legally adopted child of
any person, and such child's issue,
shall be considered to be of the blood
of such person for all purposes of
this Will.
C. In any proceeding relating
to my estate or to the qualified domestic
marital trust service of process upon
any person under disability shall
not be required if a party to the
proceeding has the same interest.
In any nonjudicial settlement of an
account of my fiduciaries the execution
of the instrument of settlement by
all the persons upon whom service
of process would be required in a
proceeding for the judicial settlement
of the account (after giving effect
to the preceding sentence) shall bind
all persons upon whom service of process
would not be required to the same
extent as that instrument binds the
persons who executed it.
D. I intend not to exercise by this
Will any power of appointment.
E. I intend not to make any provision
herein for the benefit of any child
or other descendant of mine, whether
born before or after the date of this
Will, except as herein set forth.
F. References in this Will to
the "Code" or other statute are to
the Internal Revenue Code or such
other statute as amended from time
to time, and references to Chapters
and Sections of the Code are to such
Chapters and Sections and to successor
Chapters and Sections thereto respectively.
G. The decisions of my fiduciaries
with respect to any discretionary
powers granted by my Will and as to
any questions that may arise hereunder
shall be binding upon all persons.
H. Each gift of tangible personal
property under this Will is intended
to include all copyright interests
I may own at my death in such property.
I. If any person including my
husband who would be a beneficiary
under any provision of this Will if
he or she survives either me or some
other beneficiary dies in such circumstances
that it is difficult to determine
whether or not he or she survived
me or such other beneficiary, as the
case may be, I direct that for all
purposes of this Will such person
shall be deemed to have predeceased
me or such other beneficiary, as the
case may be.
TENTH: Even
if I am not domiciled in the State
of New York at the time of my death,
I authorize my executors, in their
discretion, to offer this Will for
original probate in the proper Court
either in an appropriate County of
said State, or in such other jurisdiction
within the United States as my executors
deem appropriate, or in both should
this be deemed advisable. Should my
said Will be admitted to original
probate in the State of New York,
I direct and declare, pursuant to
the authorization provided in New
York EPTL 3-5.1(li), that it is my
election that this Will and the testamentary
dispositions herein contained (except
as to real property not situated in
New York) be construed and regulated
in all respects as to administration,
validity and effect by the laws of
the State of New York.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, LINDA
LOUISE MCCARTNEY McCARTNEY, have
executed this Will, consisting of
the seventeen preceding typewritten
pages and this page, on 4 July 1996.
The foregoing Will
was signed by the testatrix and the
undersigned in our presence together,
on the day it is dated, and she declared
it to be her Will and asked that we
be attesting witnesses.
Each of the undersigned, being duly
sworn, deposes and says:
The Will to which this affidavit
is annexed was subscribed in our presence
and sight at the end thereof by LINDA
LOUISE McCARTNEY, the within named
Testatrix, on the 4 day of July, 1996
at Hog Hill Mill Workhouse Lane Icklesham
E. Sussex England.
Said Testatrix at the time of making
such subscription declared the instrument
so subscribed to be her last Will.
Each of the undersigned thereupon
signed his or her name as a witness
at the end of said Will, at the request
of said Testatrix and in her presence
and sight and in the presence and
sight of each other.
Said Testatrix was then over the
age of eighteen years and, in the
opinion of each of the undersigned,
of sound mind, memory and understanding
and not under any restraint or in
any respect incompetent to make a
Will. Said Testatrix, in the opinion
of each of the undersigned, could
read, write and converse in the English
language and was suffering from no
defect of sight, hearing or speech,
or from any other physical or mental
impairment, which would affect her
capacity to make a valid Will. The
Will was executed as a single, original
instrument and was not executed in
counterparts.
Each of the undersigned was acquainted
with said Testatrix at such time,
and makes this affidavit at her request.
The Will to which this affidavit
is annexed was shown to the undersigned
at the time this affidavit was made,
and was examined by each of them as
to the signatures of said Testatrix
and of the undersigned.
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