One of the easiest planned gifts is to include Saddleback Medical Center Foundation in your will, charitable trust, or revocable living trust. You can make bequests for a percentage of an estate, a specific dollar amount, for a remainder amount after other bequests are fulfilled, or as a contingent bequest. You can make this provision as part of a new will, or add it to your existing plan as a codicil to your will, or an amendment to your trust.
The language that you would use for your will or trust is as follows:
1. Bequest of a specific dollar amount:
"I hereby give, devise and bequeath $_____ to Saddleback Medical Center Foundation, a non-profit organization located at 24451 Health Center Drive
Laguna Hills, California 92653, Federal Tax ID: #33-0011887, for their area
of greatest need or (insert specific area to support)."
2. Bequest of a percentage (%) of the estate:
"I hereby give, devise and bequeath _____% to Saddleback Medical Center Foundation, a non-profit organization located at 24451 Health Center Drive
Laguna Hills, California 92653, Federal Tax ID: #33-0011887, for their area
of greatest need or (insert specific area to support)."
3. Bequest of a percentage (%) after other bequests are fulfilled:
"After all specific dollar amount bequests have been fulfilled, I hereby
devise and bequeath _____% of the remainder go to Saddleback Medical Center Foundation, a non-profit organization located at located at 24451 Health
Center Drive, Laguna Hills, CA 92653, Federal Tax ID: 33-0011887, for their
area of greatest need or (insert specific area to support)."
4. Contingent Bequest:
"If [John Doe] survives me, I devise and bequeath _____% of the
remainder and residue of property owned at my death, whether real or
personal, and wherever located to [John Doe]. If [John Doe] does not survive me, then I devise and bequeath _____% of
the remainder and residue of property owned at my death, whether real or
personal, and wherever located to Saddleback Medical Center Foundation, a
non-profit organization located at located at 24451 Health Center Drive,
Laguna Hills, CA 92653, Federal Tax ID: 33-0011887, for their area of
greatest need or (insert specific area to support)."
1. Bequest of a percentage of the estate:
"I hereby devise and bequeath _____% of the remainder and residue of property owned at my death, whether real or personal, and wherever located to the Saddleback Medical Center Foundation (Tax ID: 33-0011887), a qualified charity under the Internal Revenue Code, Sections 170(b)(1)(A),170(c), 2055, and 2522, located at 24451 Health Center Drive, Laguna Hills, CA 92653, to be used for the following specific purpose __________________________, or if no specific purpose is designated, the for the general purposes as determined by the Saddleback Medical Center Foundation Board of Directors."
2. Bequest of a specific dollar amount:
"I hereby devise and bequeath $__________ dollars of my estate from property owned at my death, whether real or personal, and wherever located to the Saddleback Medical Center Foundation (Tax ID: 33-0011887), a qualified charity under the Internal Revenue Code, Sections 170(b)(1)(A),170(c), 2055, and 2522, located at 24451 Health Center Drive, Laguna Hills, CA 92653, to be used for the following specific purpose __________________________, or if no specific purpose is designated, the for the general purposes as determined by the Saddleback Medical Center Foundation Board of Directors."
3. Bequest of a percentage of the estate after other bequests are fulfilled:
"After all specific dollar amount bequests have been fulfilled, I hereby devise and bequeath _____% of the remainder and residue of property owned at my death, whether real or personal, and wherever located to the Saddleback Medical Center Foundation (Tax ID: 33-0011887), a qualified charity under the Internal Revenue Code, Sections 170(b)(1)(A),170(c), 2055, and 2522, located at 24451 Health Center Drive, Laguna Hills, CA 92653, to be used for the following specific purpose __________________________, or if no specific purpose is designated, the for the general purposes as determined by the Saddleback Medical Center Foundation Board of Directors."
4. Contingent Bequest
"If [John Doe] survives me, I devise and bequeath _____% of the remainder and residue of property owned at my death, whether real or personal, and wherever located to [John Doe]. If [John Doe] does not survive me, then I devise and bequeath _____% of the remainder and residue of property owned at my death, whether real or personal, and wherever located to the Saddleback Medical Center Foundation (Tax ID: 33-0011887), a qualified charity under the Internal Revenue Code, Sections 170(b)(1)(A),170(c), 2055, and 2522, located at 24451 Health Center Drive, Laguna Hills, CA 92653, to be used for the following specific purpose __________________________, or if no specific purpose is designated, the for the general purposes as determined by the Saddleback Medical Center Foundation Board of Directors."