| 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. |