MPs told: Do a will and leave assets to your wives and children

MEMBERS of Parliament have been advised to leave a will behind for their families to inherit their assets when they die.
“I would like to urge you all not to leave your wives and children suffering in pain and in a desperate situation after you are gone,” Justice Minister and Attorney-General Davis Steven said. He said some “who left us in the recent past to be with the good Lord” had failed “to put their family in order before they left by not taking five minutes to put on paper the distribution of their assets and wealth”.
“So please do a will,” he said.
Steven yesterday presented a ministerial statement on the Public Curator and Official Trustee of PNG office.
He also wanted to see a Public Trustee organisation “manned by professional people under professional standards and systems” to have widows and orphans coming to them to be served “rather than being forced by circumstances to come”.
Steven said the Public Curator has defended the office with “utmost sincerity, diligently and with determination”.
He said most cases were defended successfully and matters also successfully prosecuted for and on behalf of beneficiaries.
Steven said all estate matters would now be dealt with in the regional offices.
“Beneficiaries including widows and orphans will not have to
spend money to come to Port Moresby to make their applications,” he said.