853.57 Personal, recreational and household items. The following is the full text of paragraph 2.1 of the Wisconsin basic will and the basic will with trust:
If my spouse survives me, I give my spouse all my books, jewelry, clothing, personal automobiles, recreational equipment, household furnishings and effects, and other tangible articles of a household, recreational or personal use, together with all policies of insurance insuring any such items. If my spouse does not survive me, the personal representative shall distribute those items among my children who survive me, and shall distribute those items in as nearly equal shares as feasible in the personal representative's discretion. If none of my children survive me, the items described in this paragraph shall become part of the residuary estate.
History: 1983 a. 376.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
853.01 - Capacity to make or revoke a will.
853.05 - Execution of wills outside the state or by nonresidents within this state.
853.09 - Deposit of will in circuit court during testator's lifetime.
853.12 - Premarital will or predomestic partnership will.
853.15 - Equitable election if will attempts to dispose of property belonging to beneficiary.
853.17 - Effect of will provision changing beneficiary of life insurance or annuity.
853.18 - Designation of beneficiary, payee or owner.
853.25 - Unintentional failure to provide for issue of testator.
853.29 - After-acquired property.
853.31 - Presumption that will passes all of testator's interest in property.
853.32 - Effect of reference to another document.
853.325 - Effect of reference to acts or events.
853.34 - Transfers to testamentary trusts.
853.35 - Nonademption of specific gifts in certain instances.
853.41 - Applicability of general transfers at death provisions.
853.53 - Selection of property disposition clause.
853.54 - Revocation or revision.
853.55 - Wisconsin basic will.
853.56 - Wisconsin basic will with trust.
853.57 - Personal, recreational and household items.
853.58 - Residuary estate; basic will.
853.59 - Residuary estate; basic will with trust.