A lot of good people end up having hard times, injury, divorce, death of family member.

Title correctly and you can get the 100% step up on the spouses death.  

They would be the beneficiary of the account for both tax reasons and upon your death they can claim their money

While we take these conditions for granted in today’s age, bad vision and bad teeth would mean almost sure death at one point in evolutionary time.So, from an anthropological point of view, I find it interesting what one might think is needed for 6 months given the worst possible scenario – but yet not so bad that it could not be overcome with some food stuffs.

Once he received a death certificate, he went down to the county recorder's to have the certificate recorded. 

I also had an unusually run of vacancies this spring/summer, deaths and nursing homes were my issue... 9 units in 3 months..

The emotional toll of the latter type creates hatred and mistrust. 

It is amazing how panicked everyone is getting despite only a few deaths.

Had they done it towards the end of his administration when they could point to a single thing he accomplished they may have been able to make a point.I guess that now he has the Nobel Peace Prize - 16 year old kids from Chicago where he was a Community Organizer won't beat each other to death in the streets.

Tax wise I was advised to sell 2 rentals of my parents within the year of his death, which I did..sold one last fall , and still have managed the last property for the trust but am in the works for finally closing the deal on that soon.