Sentence examples for leaving estate from inspiring English sources

A retiree caught between the dual objectives of guaranteed lifetime income and leaving estate assets to children could delay retirement a few years to accumulate more of a nest egg, take a part-time job during the early years of retirement, or readjust retirement income downward to match bond yields while retaining principal.

For the superrich, those leaving estates of $20 million or more, the average tax rate fell to 16.5percentt from 18.4percentt.

He was five years old when his father died, leaving estates that had been ruined by inflation and mismanagement during the Wars of Religion (1562 98), and he was conscious from his earliest years of the threat of penury.

The government's stamp duty changes have left estate agents in Manchester with a festive spring in their step.

In fact, less than 2percentt of Americans who die leave estates subject to the tax.

Ninety-eight per cent of Americans do not leave estates large enough for the tax to kick in.

And the biggest offenders are those with the most to lose -- some heirs of the very rich, who leave estates of at least $20 million, the I.R.S. has found.

Interestingly enough, real estate, despite placing third on the list, isn't nearly as big a part of the superrich portfolio as it is for the "merely rich," those who left estates valued between $1.5 million and $20 million.

Isaac Brokaw died in 1913, leaving an estate of $12 million.

Sears died in 1914, leaving an estate of 25 million.

Mapplethorpe died leaving an estate worth more than $200m.