On 5/14/2015 11:12 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Every will I have seen so far contains boiler plate to the effect that
the executor is directed to immediately pay all medical expenses.

Seems counter-intuitive to me. Why not directives to pay all
lawn-maintenance expenses? All utility bills?... and so-forth.

What is so special about medical expenses - except for the potential for
a feeding frenzy by caregivers plus the huge difference between
insurance/Medicare payments and actual charges?

Seems like a bad idea on the face of it.

What am I missing.


I have been both an executor and a trustee and I have never seen
anything that speaks specifically about paying medical expenses. What I
have seen is something like "to pay all debts and expenses required by
law". Of course, the norm may be entirely different in other parts of
the country.