My father is dying.
He's got end stage dementia so really I lost him years ago so I've done my grieving.
His small estate is divided between myself and my 2 siblings equally.
Myself and Dh are comfortably off, the inheritance will make a small but not signifcant difference to our financial status.
However even a third of the small estate will be very useful to my youngest sister whois not well off at all. She has no debts but has no money spare for luxuries. She is very proud and has always refused offers of help unless they are very small and disguiysed as a birthday present.
Can I decline the bequest? and if so does the estate just get divided between sister 1 and sister 2 equally?
Are there tax implications for doing this (if it is even possible)
Obviously my father can change his will.
I feel she not only needs the money more, I feel she has earned it as she lived closest to Dad so did most of the "things" he needed
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FallenArchesBrokenDreams · 10/01/2017 13:29
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