((My comments in double parentheses - Homer)) LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF L. RON HUBBARD CD - 11 27 May 1994 Redistribution rights granted for non commercial purposes. I, L. RON HUBBARD, also known as LAFAYETTE RONALD HUBBARD, a resident of the State of California, declare this to be my LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT and I revoke all Wills and Codicils to Wills that I have made prior to making this Will. FIRST: I declare that I am married; that my wife's name is MARY SUE HUBBARD, and that any and all references in this WILL to "my Wife" or to "my spouse" are to her. I further declare that I have five (5) children now living, namely DIANA MEREDITH DeWOLF HUBBARD RYAN, MARY SUZETTE ROCHELLE HUBBARD, ARTHUR RONALD CONWAY HUBBARD, LAFAYETTE RONALD HUBBARD, JR., also known as L. RON HUBBARD, JR., also known as NIBS HUBBARD, also known as RONALD DeWOLF, and KATHERINE MAY HUBBARD GILLESPIE, all of whom are adults. I have one (1) deceased child, namely, QUENTIN HUBBARD, who I believe died without issue. I further declare that I have no other children or issue of deceased children, either living or deceased. Any of the terms "my children", "children of mine", or "my child", as used in this Will shall be deemed to refer only to DIANA MEREDITH DeWOLF HUBBARD RYAN, MARY SUZETTE ROCHELLE HUBBARD, ARTHUR RONALD CONWAY HUBBARD, and KATHERINE KAY HUBBARD GILLESPIE, and shall not refer to LAFAYETTE RONALD HUBBARD, JR., also known as L. RON HUBBARD, JR., also known as NIBS HUBBARD, also known as RONALD DeWOLF, QUENTIN HUBBARD ((sic)), it being my intent that LAFAYETTE RONALD HUBBARD, JR.,also known as RONALD DeWOLF, QUENTIN HUBBARD, and their issue shall not take under my Will. SECOND: I hereby direct that my body be cremated and the ashes be buried at sea. I direct that my Personal Representative take all steps necessary to carry out the foregoing as soon as possible following my death. Under no circumstances shall my body lie in state or be subjected to an autopsy. THIRD: It is my intention to dispose of all property, whether real, personal or mixed, of whatsoever kind and character, and wheresoever situated, which I am entitled to dispose of by Will, specifically including by not limited to the following: (a) My entire right, title, and interest in and to my name, voice, signature, photograph and likeness, together with any trademarks and service marks composed of and/or utilizing same and all registrations and application for registration of such trademarks and service marks. (b) My entire right, title, and interest in the nineteen (19) year period of extended copyright protection and in all copyright rights provided thereby in all copyrightable works written or created by me and/or assigned to me prior to January 1, 1978, which nineteen (19) year period of extended copyright protection is created by 304 of Title 17, United States Code. (c) My entire right, title, and interest in the right or ability to renew, or to file renewal claims for, all copyrights on or in all copyrightable works written or created by me and/or assigned to me prior to January 1, 1978. (d) My entire right, title, and interest in all copyrights on or in all copyrightable works written or created by me and/or assigned to me on or after January 1, 1978. (e) My entire right, title, and interest in all statutory and common law copyrights on or in all other copyrightable works written or created by me and/or assigned to me, regardless of when the works were written or created, including but not limited to copyrights on or in works covered by 303 or Title 17, United States Code. (f) All property over which I may have any power of appointment by Will. FOURTH: To my dear friends on my personal staff, to my aides, to officers and executives of Scientology organizations, and to my staunch friends on staffs and Scientologists, I give my love and continued support, and my hopes for a better world. FIFTH: I have this day previously established the AUTHOR'S FAMILY TRUST-B, by Agreement bearing the same date as this Will, of which I am the Trustor and NORMAN F. STARKEY is the Trustee. In that Trust Agreement I have provided for the payment of all my debts, expenses of last illness, succession and transfer taxes, and administration expenses arising from my estate. I have also provided therein for certain benefits for my wife, I hereby direct the Trustee of the AUTHOR'S FAMILY TRUST-B to pay such debts and expenses from the assets of the trust, as such assets may be augmented by assets from my probate estate. SIXTH: I give, devise and bequeath all of the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, whether real, personal or mixed, and wheresoever situated, including all lapsed and failed gifts, and including but not limited to the following: (a) My entire right, title, and interest in and to my name, voice, signature, photograph and likeness, together with any trademarks and service marks composed of and/or utilizing same and all registrations and application for registration of such trademarks and service marks. (b) My entire right, title, and interest in the nineteen (19) year period of extended copyright protection and in all copyright rights provided thereby in all copyrightable works written or created by me and/or assigned to me prior to January 1, 1978, which nineteen (19) year period of extended copyright protection is created by 304 of Title 17, United States Code. (c) My entire right, title, and interest in the right or ability to renew, or to file renewal claims for, all copyrights on or in all copyrightable works written or created by me and/or assigned to me prior to January 1, 1978. (d) My entire right, title, and interest in all copyrights on or in all copyrightable works written or created by me and/or assigned to me on or after January 1, 1978. (e) My entire right, title, and interest in all statutory and common law copyrights on or in all other copyrightable works written or created by me and/or assigned to me, regardless of when the works were written or created, including but not limited to copyrights on or in works covered by 303 or Title 17, United States Code. (f) All property over which I may have any power of appointment by Will; to the then-acting Trustee, or Trustees, under the AUTHOR'S FAMILY TRUST-B, earlier established this day by written agreement bearing the date of this Will. I direct that the residue of my said estate shall be added to and shall be held, administered and distributed as part of said trust, according to the terms of said trust and any amendments thereto made prior to my death. It is my intent, if it be permissible, not to create a separate trust by this Will. If for any reason said Trust Agreement shall, as of the date of my death, be ineffective or not in existence, then I give, devise and bequeath all of the residue of my estate to the Trustee, or Trustees, named in the Trust Agreement and who would be acting as Trustee, or as Trustees, thereof if the same were not ineffective or were in existence, IN TRUST, to hold, manage and distribute the same in accordance with the terms of said Trust Agreement, the terms of which I hereby incorporate into this, my WILL, by reference, as fully as if said Trust Agreement were set forth herein in its entirety. SEVENTH: I declare that, except as otherwise provided in this WILL and in the Trust Agreement establishing the AUTHOR'S FAMILY TRUST-B, I have intentionally and with full knowledge omitted to provide herein for any of my heirs who may be living at the time of my death, including but not limited to, LAFAYETTE RONALD HUBBARD, JR., also known as L. RONALD HUBBARD, JR., also known as NIBS HUBBARD, also known as RONALD DeWOLF, QUENTIN HUBBARD, and all of the issue of such persons. Further, I have intentionally omitted to provide herein for ALEXIS HOLLISTER, who may pretend to be my heir, but in fact is not and never has been my heir. EIGHTH; If any devisee, legatee or beneficiary under this Will, any beneficiary under my Trust Agreement, or any legal heir of mine or any person claiming under any of them, shall contest the Will or my Trust Agreement, or attack or seek to impair or invalidate any of the provisions hereof, or thereof, any of these things, then in that event I specifically disinherit each such person, and all legacies bequests, devises and interests given under this Will or under my Trust Agreement to such person shall be forfeited and shall augment proportionately the shares of my estate going under this Will to or in trust for such of my devisees, legatees and beneficiaries as shall not have participated in such acts or proceedings. NINTH: I nominate and appoint NORMAN F. STARKEY Executor of this Will. Should NORMAN F. STARKEY be deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to act as Executor, a successor Executor shall be selected from the following persons in the following priority: 1. Anne M. Broeker 2. David Miscavige 3. Terri G. Gamboa An absolute condition for any person's commencing to serve as an Executor shall be that he or she be an ordained minister of Scientology, in good standing. None of the foregoing individuals shall be required to furnish bond in any jurisdiction for acting as Executor of this Will or any Codicil to it. The terms Personal Representative, as used in this Will, shall be deemed to mean any person or persons appointed as Executor, Executrix or Co-Executors of this Will, or any Codicil to it, whenever the context so requires. In addition to those powers now or hereafter conferred by law, my Personal Representatives shall have full power to sell, lease, mortgage, or encumber by deed of trust the whole or any part of my estate, such sales to be made at either public or private sale, with or without notice, but subject to such confirmation as may be required by law; and to hold manage and operate any property or business belonging to my estate at the risk of my estate and not at the risk of my Personal Representatives, with any profits or losses therefrom to inure to or be chargeable to my estate as a whole. My Personal Representatives shall be authorized to invest surplus funds, but only subject to such confirmation as may be required by law. My Personal Representatives shall continue to hold and operate any property or business received by them in the form of an entity in which such business was operated during my lifetime, or in such other form of entity as they may deem advisable. My Personal Representative shall cooperate with my Trustee to provide for the payment of all of my debts or liabilities in connection with the purchase or acquisition of interests in partnerships that I may hold at my death. With respect to stocks and other securities held in the estate, my Personal Representatives shall have all the rights, powers and privileges of an owner, including, but not by way of limitation, the power to vote, give proxies, and pay assessments and other sums deemed by the Personal Representatives necessary for the protection of the estate; to participate in voting trusts, pooling agreements, foreclosures, reorganization, consolidations, mergers and liquidations, sales and leases, and in connection therewith to deposit securities with the transfer title to any protective or other committee under such terms as my Personal Representatives may deem advisable; to exercise or sell stock subscription or conversion rights; to accept and retain as an investment any securities or other property received through the exercise of any of the foregoing powers, regardless of any limitations elsewhere in this instrument relative to investments by my Personal Representatives to invest and reinvest the principal and any undistributed income, and purchase or acquire therewith every kind of property, real, personal or mixed, and every kind of investment, specifically including, but not by way of limitation, corporate obligations of every kind, stocks preferred to common, shares of investment trusts, investment companies, and mutual funds, and mortgage participations, which men of prudence, discretion and intelligence acquire for their own account. My Personal Representatives shall cooperate with my Trustee to determine whether any or all of the expenses of administration of my estate shall be used as federal estate tax deductions or as federal income tax deductions, and whether any or all of such expenses shall be used as deductions for purposes of California inheritance tax or California income tax. No legatee or devisee or beneficiary under this Will shall have any right to recoupment or restoration of any loss suffered as a result of the use by my estate of such deductions for one or the other of these purposes. My Personal Representatives shall have the power to file joint income tax returns with my surviving spouse, and in such event my Personal Representatives shall not require any contribution from said surviving spouse of any part of the income tax payable thereon, and to compromise, settle and adjust claims and demands in favor of or against my estate. My Personal Representatives may, in my Personal Representatives' sole discretion, distribute, upon obtaining a partial or final order of distribution, any part of my estate ( not specifically bequeathed ) in kind ( including undivided interests therein ), in cash, or partly in cash and partly in kind, and the decision of my Personal Representatives as to what constitutes a proper division of my estate shall be binding upon all beneficiaries. TENTH: As used in this Will, the masculine, feminine or neuter gender, and the singular or plural number, shall each be deemed to include the others whenever the context so requires. ELEVENTH: If any provision or provisions of this Will or any Codicil to it are finally determined to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions shall nevertheless be carried into effect. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have executed this LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT this 23 day of June, 1986 at Creston (sic) CA. ___(signature and what looks like a thumb print)____ L. RON HUBBARD THE FOREGOING INSTRUMENT, consisting of thirteen (13) pages, including the the page signed by the Testator, being page twelve (12), including the page signed by the witnesses, being page thirteen (13), was on the date hereof by the said L. RON HUBBARD, subscribed, published and declared to be his Last Will and Testament, in the presence of us who, at his request and in his presence, and in the presence of each other, sign the same as witnesses thereto. Each of us observed the initialing of each page hereof by L RON HUBBARD, the signing of this Will by L. RON HUBBARD and by each other subscribing witness, and knows that each signature is the true signature of the person whose name was signed. Each of us is now more than twenty-one (21) years of age and a competent witness. We are acquainted with L. RON HUBBARD. At this time, he is over the age of eighteen (18) years, and to the best of our knowledge he is of sound mind and is not acting under duress, menace, fraud, misrepresentation, or undue influence. We each understand that the Testator is executing his Last Will and Testament. We declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on 23 January 1986 at Creston (sic) Anne M. Broeker Patrick D. Broeker Stephen J. P_fu___(sic) Raymond Mithoff ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Homer Wilson Smith This file may be found at homer@rahul.net ftp.rahul.net/pub/homer/act/CD11.MEMO Posted to usenet newsgroup: alt.clearing.technology