Seen elsewhere

For those in countries will peculiar inheritance laws:
http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2006/10/important-and-pass-it-on.html

For the rest of us living in nations where the legal systems isn't tweaked for the maximum feeding of lawyers it still contains some good guidelines. After all, you may want to explicitly give away your intellectual property to someone, at least as much of it as the law permits.