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LEGACY TAKE A BOW
Thy Will be done
“Leaving a gift to charity is a very meaningful experience that allows you to support a charity or cause you
care about after you are gone. My Legacy would encourage everyone to make an appointment to visit your
local solicitor for a will consultation to discuss your wishes and your lasting legacy.”
-Susan O’Dwyer, Chairperson of MyLegacy.ie and CEO of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Your solicitor is best placed to advise you of the tax and
legal implications of your decisions and who will use
your outlined instructions to draft your will.
Before making an appointment with your solicitor, it’s a
good idea to take note of the following:
• Your assets, their value and their location. ABOUT MY LEGACY
• Your nearest relatives. Mylegacy.ie was established in 2003 by a small group of
• Your executor(s) – this is the person(s) that will Irish charities who knew at first hand the great impact a
legacy or bequest can have on the work of a charity and
administer the estate in accordance with the yet research shows only 35% of people living in Ireland
directions set out in the will. This person should be have made a will. Since then, Mylegacy.ie has grown to
someone that you trust and who is responsible. an umbrella group of 76 Irish charities who work
• The proposed division of your estate - this refers together to promote the importance of making a will
to all of the money, property, assets, interests and and to ask people to consider leaving a legacy, large or
things of value controlled by a person while alive. small, to a favorite charity once all other important
personal decisions have been made. MyLegacy.ie
Your solicitor can take you through any legal restrictions provides unbiased, useful information to individuals,
(if applicable), special circumstances, inheritance tax and charities and solicitors about leaving legacies to
types of will. charities. MyLegacy.ie does not solicit specific gifts or
legacies for individual organisations.
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Thy Will be done
“Leaving a gift to charity is a very meaningful experience that allows you to support a charity or cause you
care about after you are gone. My Legacy would encourage everyone to make an appointment to visit your
local solicitor for a will consultation to discuss your wishes and your lasting legacy.”
-Susan O’Dwyer, Chairperson of MyLegacy.ie and CEO of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Your solicitor is best placed to advise you of the tax and
legal implications of your decisions and who will use
your outlined instructions to draft your will.
Before making an appointment with your solicitor, it’s a
good idea to take note of the following:
• Your assets, their value and their location. ABOUT MY LEGACY
• Your nearest relatives. Mylegacy.ie was established in 2003 by a small group of
• Your executor(s) – this is the person(s) that will Irish charities who knew at first hand the great impact a
legacy or bequest can have on the work of a charity and
administer the estate in accordance with the yet research shows only 35% of people living in Ireland
directions set out in the will. This person should be have made a will. Since then, Mylegacy.ie has grown to
someone that you trust and who is responsible. an umbrella group of 76 Irish charities who work
• The proposed division of your estate - this refers together to promote the importance of making a will
to all of the money, property, assets, interests and and to ask people to consider leaving a legacy, large or
things of value controlled by a person while alive. small, to a favorite charity once all other important
personal decisions have been made. MyLegacy.ie
Your solicitor can take you through any legal restrictions provides unbiased, useful information to individuals,
(if applicable), special circumstances, inheritance tax and charities and solicitors about leaving legacies to
types of will. charities. MyLegacy.ie does not solicit specific gifts or
legacies for individual organisations.
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