Vast and sparsely populated, Texas has a strong cowboy culture that embraces small towns, farms and a free-spirited lifestyle.

They don't like to be disciplined, it doesn't matter if you're the Emperor of Mexico or the President of the United States, even if aliens come, they're still thorny.

Because the people are too fierce, the scale of their cities has always been small, because if there is too much population, they will cause trouble, and after causing trouble, the population number will naturally drop.

California has Los Angeles and San Francisco, Washington State has Seattle, not to mention New York, what are the well-known big cities in Texas? The largest city, Houston, has a population of only 2 million, and many people in Dallas and El Paso have probably never heard of it.

The town of Newt where Bella and the others are going is located in the southernmost part of Texas, near the Mexican border.

The boss drives, and the employee sits in the back. That's impossible! Out of Dallas, she called Max to the front to drive!

"Boss? I...... I don't ......" He wanted to say that he couldn't drive, but this made Comrade Max a little embarrassed to speak, and there really aren't many Americans who can't drive.

Bella was stunned for a moment.

"Can't really drive? Only riding a scooter? ...... Don't worry, now is your chance to exercise! Come on, come on, there's no one on the road anyway, such a simple thing, just drive two miles. ”

She pushed Max into the cab.

Comrade Max nervously put the steering wheel on his shoulder, for fear that he would drive the car into a ditch.

Bella, with great peace of mind, lay down in Heather's broad bosom and slowly fell asleep.

The road became more and more desolate, and by the time we reached Newt Town, it was already the afternoon of the day.

The town is lined with towering trees, there are not many houses in the town, and the residents look at them with indifference in their eyes, and the law that you can't hold guns in public places seems to exist here, and there are many people with pistols at their waists and shotguns in their hands.

It is not only for deterrence, but also to give courage to the two honest people in the same industry. Bella raised her hand and shot a wild wolf that had come out to forage for food.

"That old grandmother of yours lives alone in this kind of place? It's super amazing! She felt that without some superpowers, she could live to the end of her life in such a place, and Heather's grandmother was also a ruthless person......

They stopped in front of the fence marked with the name plate of the Sawyer family, and after a while they waited, the lawyer who handled the commission also came to the iron gate from the other end of the intersection.

The lawyer was an old man, very fat, with white hair and a white beard, and he walked panting.

He looked at the three of them, his eyes swept over Bella and Max, as if he didn't think they had the temperament of a Texan, and finally looked at Heather.

"Looks like your grandmother." The old man said to Heather with a smile as he pulled out a thick bag of papers.

Heather was wearing a striped blouse, deliberately torn at the shoulder, revealing her left shoulder, the blouse was very short, propped up by her gift, and the smooth lower abdomen was completely exposed, looking extremely seductive, she nervously took the paper and read it carefully.

"Bernard. Sawyer...... That's your grandmother's name, she is nice and kind, even though it's not very popular here. The old man pointed to the 'bitch' letters sprayed out of the wall with paint.

Heather still uses the surname of her original adoptive father, and she doesn't dislike the surname Sawyer, but she doesn't like it either.

It is troublesome to change the surname, and it is even more troublesome to inherit the inheritance of the grandmother who has never met before.

And these two things complement each other and are indispensable.

If you inherit the inheritance, you can naturally change your surname justifiably, and if you change your surname, you can inherit the inheritance.

So the question is, what are the formalities required to continue the estate?

Money! Money needed! Tax! Inheritance tax!

The U.S. has federal estate tax and state estate tax.

Ten of these states will levy a state estate tax on top of the federal estate tax, and four more will levy an inheritance tax.

Luckily, Texas is not covered by this, and if Heather wants to continue her grandmother's legacy, she only needs to pay federal estate tax.

What is the percentage of this tax? It's roughly in the range of 8% to 50%.

If you inherit a million inheritance, then according to the complex inheritance law, the heir will have to pay a minimum of $80,000 and a maximum of $500,000 in inheritance tax.

For most of the American people who don't know the law and have no way to understand the law, they basically belong to the grade of being cut leeks, and it is normal for the tax office to take half of your inheritance.

Considering Heather's blood relationship with her grandmother, her tax percentage is probably around 45%.

If the old lady gave Heather a million worth of estate and farms, she would need to pay 450,000 in estate tax to the federal government, which must be paid in full and cannot be paid in installments!

Inheritance tax is more symbolic than practical for the rich, and they have a way to avoid it.

The difficulty is that those middle class and southern farmers may be cut from the propertied class to the proletariat by the law after two generations!

In many southern states of the United States, farmers can no longer afford to grow land, and the cost is too high......

Heather looked through all kinds of documents, and her brows were furrowed with worry, how could she be rich!

The only little money she saved was saved by working for Bella, and now she is asking her to pay $450,000? Just kidding, right?

She wouldn't care if Bella borrowed money, and she couldn't afford to pay it back.

Instead of asking for a estate and farm in Texas, it is better to sell it for money, her idea is very practical, but if you want to sell, you must have a full set of procedures, if you don't pay inheritance tax, these procedures can't be done, and things suddenly enter a dead end.

The old lawyer saw her embarrassment, and waved goodbye happily: "Come to me anytime if you have difficulties, there is my phone number on it." ”

Max attaches great importance to his girlfriend's affairs, and takes the documents and ponders them repeatedly, as if he wants to find the loopholes in them.

Lawyers are experts in playing with words, how can it be so easy for you to be exploited by a layman, and the result of watching it for a long time is that you don't see anything.

"What should we do?" Heather asked Bella.

Bella doesn't have the slightest envy and jealousy for her roommate to inherit an inheritance, it's almost the border, and the location is too remote! The old lady is a typical Texan, ignoring the law, not understanding the law, and not understanding what inheritance tax is, and did not make any arrangements before her death, and all the problems were pressed on Heather at this time.

"Boss, this ...... How much do I need to pay in the end? "Looking at this big stack of legal documents at the level of Max who did not graduate from high school, he was dizzy and didn't understand it, he only saw one word in many terms, articles, obligations and responsibilities, money!

He really wanted to help his girlfriend, but didn't know how.