default beneficiary is a catch all

It is better to have only one default beneficiary.  The use of default beneficiary is mainly to catch properties not mentioned by the will.

Let's say your will mentioned 1 primary residence and three bank accounts, and assigned those properties to multiple people.  But after your death they found out you had a forgotten account not mentioned by the will.  That forgotten account would go to the default beneficiary, i.e. catch-all. 

So it is better to have only one person serving as catch all.  If you have multiple persons as default, and if there is an forgotten property goes to the multiple default beneficiaries, there will be dispute as to how to divide it. 

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• correct, but I ask about non-spouse as the default. the template -hello2002- ♀ (70 bytes) () 04/05/2021 postreply 17:55:20

• 我不懂你原帖的最後一句話 -檸檬椰子汁- ♂ (259 bytes) () 04/05/2021 postreply 18:29:50

• 是的，你理解的是對的。 -hello2002- ♀ (599 bytes) () 04/05/2021 postreply 20:07:37

• 應該是可以改的, 不過還是要一個個財產說清楚，不要偷懶 -檸檬椰子汁- ♂ (168 bytes) () 04/06/2021 postreply 06:06:31

• sure. so, can i just replace the default spouse term ? -hello2002- ♀ (75 bytes) () 04/06/2021 postreply 13:57:45

• 我無法回答，沒有看原文。 -檸檬椰子汁- ♂ (53 bytes) () 04/06/2021 postreply 14:16:07

• ok thanks. -hello2002- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/06/2021 postreply 14:42:51