From: "Jeffrey E." <[email protected]> To: Valeria Chomsky Subject: Re: taxes Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2017 13:14:57 +0000 Understood entirely On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 2:47 PM Valeria Chomsky < > wrote: The WelMeet house was a house Noam bought for the Summer time in the 1970s. Where Noam would spend time writing. The house was transferred to his children's name and transformed into an LLC. The family gathers there in the Summer. Noam was paying $50,000 annuallyas a rent fee for the house, but we were staying only one or two weeks there. And considering all our situation, our new lawyer recommended to stop these payments immediately. I asked Noam and he is confirming that all the Trusts, even the ones established under Carol's name were funded with his money. The girls have jobs, but according to Noam, they don't make enough from their jobs. But they live very comfortable lives. Travels, etc. It seems they complement their income with investments from money that Noam has given them along the years, including annual distributions. Noam bought them their houses. Helped them with house renovations. When one of the daughters divorced, Noam gave the daughters' spouse a house, as part of the divorce agreement. Used to pay for airline tickets, etc. There are copyright of books in their names of in their own trusts. The son doesn't work. His wife doesn't work either. They have a wonderful boy who has autism and we were paying his medical expenses. But they live a very comfortable life. Travel constantly business class. Hiking in Switzerland, etc. We are not interested in any of the money/assets from the past or to which they are the beneficiaries. Their life style is not our business. All we want is to be independent with the one source that Noam was left with -- the IRAs and our work and jobs. The whole problem is because they insist that they have to be in charge of our financial life, to be part of the planning of our financial life, to be included i