I'm drawing a blank-- is there any reason an estate can't be sued for wrongful deaths by the decedent?

No. The estate is liable for the torts of the decedent.

I guess you were asleep during that Trusts & Estates lecture.

But Ace, if you take the money away from his family, then his kids will grow up poor. And everyone knows that poverty causes terrorism.

From Tim Blair's site:

UPDATE from an English government insider:

I don’t believe that Shehzad Tanweer ever had assets of over £120,000.

This is just a guess, but what probably happened was that the senior members of the family will have bought two or three terrace houses in Beeston or Holbeck or Wortley or wherever and registered them in the name of Shehzad Tanweer at the Land Registry. This sort of manoeuvre means that the “beneficial owners" can hide behind the “legal ownership” of whoever is on the register.

This is useful for tax purposes and also for fiddling Housing Benefit payments where members of the same extended family rent each other’s houses (although I am certainly not suggesting this happened in this case). This normally works well but if the “legal owner” unexpectedly vaporises himself the “beneficial owners” have to go to the inconvenience and expense of going to the Probate Court to get their hands back on their property.

Despite Beeston being near the bottom end of the Leeds housing market, terrace properties can still sell for around £90,000.

... take it all, invest in pigs & alcohol ;)

/TJ

Poverty Causes Terrorism

That is your straw man argument.
Poverty is "a" cause of terrorism, along with American's unconditional support of Israel and American military bases in Saudi Arabia (propping up a Monarchy that propagates Wahhabism, the most extreme form of Islam). And the fact that we (America) have supported the most fundamental kinds of Islam in the world, just like we did in Afghanistan, just as we are doing in Iraq right now due to republicans myopic goals.

Yeah, dammit! That's a straw man argument, because everyone knows that it's really poverty + JOOOOOS that causes terrorism.

"And the fact that we (America) have supported the most fundamental kinds of Islam in the world, just like we did in Afghanistan, just as we are doing in Iraq right now due to republicans myopic goals."

I live in Africa. I am curious. Who makes these sorts of stunningly unintelligent comments on blogs like this? Can anyone profile this sort of person for me?

Can anyone profile this sort of person for me?

University student, university professor...

The 22-year-old terrorist worked in his dad's restaurant and had "no other source of income."

The article left out any speculation as to where this ching-a-ling came from. If the bomber got cash from some fundamentalist org for payment to blow up the subway, can the family still take the money?

Don't know about Brit law,

I thought some provision in RICO or maybe even the PA says funds used for criminal/terrorist activities can be siezed.

lawyers? need a little help

"Poverty Causes Terrorism That is your straw man argument."

Watch the goalposts being uprooted and carried back into the distance.

"Poverty is "a" cause of terrorism"

I thought it was a "straw man" - the nuance dazzles me.

"along with American's unconditional support of Israel"

Ah, so terrorists laid down their bomb belts when Israel pulled out of Gaza? No?

"and American military bases in Saudi Arabia"

Maintaining bases in a country with the permission of its government - O the Humanity.

"(propping up a Monarchy that propagates Wahhabism, the most extreme form of Islam)"

So you support recognition of alternative factions over a country's nominal govt (contrary to the UN); I don't suppose you give the US kudos for toppling Saddam's regime in Iraq then?

"And the fact that we (America) have supported the most fundamental kinds of Islam in the world, just like we did in Afghanistan, just as we are doing in Iraq right now due to republicans myopic goals."

Heh - didn't think so. I love it when I see libs throwing the F word around minus any supporting quotes, citations or links. Nice.