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If one of your adult kids won the lottery

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Hedgeoffressian · 04/05/2024 08:37

If you have two grown children. One of them wins a substantial sum on the lottery. Your other child is very poor living from one pay day to the next and has to budget to make sure they can pay for life’s essentials. Would this affect what you leave your children in your will and would you leave the majority of your assets to the child who needs it most? Or would you split it between them evenly?

I personally would leave the majority to the child who has nothing. Would you do the same?

Disclaimer to add this hasn’t affected me in real life. It’s something I have wondered about though.

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Dacadactyl · 04/05/2024 08:40

Yes I'd leave it to the one that needs it most in that situation.

But I would also be extremely disappointed in the lottery winning child if they didn't share their good fortune with their sibling. I'd expect my kids to set the other one up if they received a lottery win tbh.

cryinglaughing · 04/05/2024 08:39

I would leave them an equal share.
Why should the one who makes shrewd financial decisions be penalised because their sibling hasn't done the same?