Sample Bequest Language

Thank you for considering the Virginia Outdoors Foundation in your estate plans. Below is sample bequest language that we hope you will find helpful in your discussion with your attorney. VOF cannot provide tax or legal advice.

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Specific Bequest: directs a dollar amount or particular assets, such as securities or tangible personal property (such as works of art), to VOF.

Sample language: “I give (insert dollar amount or asset) to the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, an instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Virginia, with offices located at 324 Waterloo Street, Warrenton, Virginia, 20186, to be used to be used for its general purposes.”

Residuary Bequest: directs all or part of the balance of a donor’s estate to a beneficiary after each of the specific bequests has been satisfied.

Sample language: “I give and bequeath to the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, an instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Virginia, with offices located at 324 Waterloo Street, Warrenton, Virginia, 20186, all (or ____%) of the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate, to be used for its general purposes.”

Contingent Bequest: provides for the disposition of a donor’s estate if one or more of the named beneficiaries fails to survive the donor.

Sample language: “If any of the above-named beneficiaries should predecease me, I hereby bequeath his or her share to the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, an instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Virginia, with offices located at 324 Waterloo Street, Warrenton, Virginia, 20186 to be used for its general purposes.”

Restricted Bequest: directs assets to be used for a specific purpose. If you are considering designating your bequest for a specific purpose, please contact the Development Office at (804) 840-2388. We are available to discuss what you want to accomplish through your gift and can provide sample language for you and your attorney to review.