Often when we ask our new clients, "If your son died in a car accident on the way home from your funeral what would happen to the assets you left him?" The most common answer we get is, “They  would go to his children”. When we ask, "What would make that happen?" the reply is, "It says that in our will". Their will can't leave to anyone that which belongs to their son, however, what their will does say is, "If my son dies before me, I leave those assets to his children". Therefore, we can't know where those assets will go. A likely scenario is that those assets will go to their son's wife, which might work out well, but if she remarries in a few years, and then dies prematurely, there is a possibility that those assets will go to her new husband, someone our client never even met.