From: Valeria Chomsky To: "Jeffrey E." <jeevacation®gmail.com> Cc: Noam Chomsky Subject: My view of the situation Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 18:01:16 +0000 The three children believe that all Noam's money, not only from the marital Trust, but also from the IRAs belongs to them, because it was made when Noam was married to their mother. But not only from the time their marriage lasted, because after Noam and his second wife had been married, Harry once flew from California to complain that royalties even of a new book that Noam wrote after being married to his second wife should NOT come to the second wife). And the book publication was delayed and all sorts of legal difficulties and pressure from Max to have the book only under Noam's name -- with Deborah's endorsement, until Gene Landy stood up in the case. Therefore, in their minds, all the money should be inherited by them. In the will that Max proposed, the second wife would receive $25,000, and even the remaining money from bank accounts should go to the Noam Chomsky Revocable Trust. At the time the bank account was being used only as an account for making payments. So it had only the exact amount for payments. At the time, before Noam and his second wife sold the apartment in Cambridge (that was bought after Noam and his second wife had been married -- btw that it was not allowed by Max to be bought jointly in Noam's and his second wife's name) and all the tangible assets including, sheets, pillowcases, glasses, silverware, books, objects, rugs, furniture and all its content, as Max wrote, would also go to the NCRT. Therefore, including things that Noam and his second wife had acquired together. The document stated that then all tangible assets would be sold and the money would be reverted to the NC Revocable Trust, that would have become at that point irrevocable. The NC Revocable Trust has the three children as its beneficiaries. Harry was nominated trustee of the marital trust. He now co