A decade ago my younger son benefited from a massive inheritance.
Essentially my MiL bypassed her three children and left everything to her 6 grandchildren.
The grandchildren: 2 siblings, 3 siblings and my younger child.
SHE WAS ENTITLED TO DO AS SHE PLEASED. IT WAS HER MONEY.
The fallout was quite seismic for lots of reasons. My partner felt that as he only had one child the family of the brother with 3 children benefitted disproportionately.
It was said at the time and I believe this to be the case that the will was designed like this. to stop my elder child from a previous relationship from benefiting as he might have done 40/50 years later if the money had gone directly to my partner.
As for my relationship, my partner refused to consider changing our wills leaving more to elder child who was at the time very unlikely to inherit from his own father. He is now on property ladder but any inheritance will pale into insignificance compared with younger child’s
Well it’s happened again!
Late MiL’s half brother has left his entire estate to the MALE grandchildren of his siblings. Younger son and partner’s nephew and we think 2 or 3 others.
HE WAS ENTITLED TO DO WHAT HE WANTED WITH HIS OWN MONEY.
I genuinely can’t contemplate my two sons having such vastly different lives.
I want advice to come to terms with it . I have disabled voting. I can’t talk to anyone.