Blended family and wills

the children should be treated exactly the same, regardless of them having other parents to inherit from. It's not a consolation to know your mum might leave you a few ££££s when your dad treated you differently to his other children.

Your joint money should be split in half and he should leave his half to his children in equal amounts. Your half you do what you want with.

You are unreasonable for expecting anything more.

Your husband splits his assets equally between all his kids. Yours goes to your kid/s

I’d be more concerned with protecting your financial interests if the relationship breaks down.

I'm from a blended family and when my dad died, he didn't leave anything to his older children because he didn't take any of the share of the house whilst divorcing his ex wife - she got all of the equity and he carried on paying the mortgage up to a certain point, with the understanding it would be left to the children when the time comes. It was a bit risky but the house has gone up in value (London) significantly.

Unless your husband had a similar arrangement with his exes then I think it's entirely unreasonable.

And if your DH, God forbid, moves on and has more children with another woman, you'd be happy for your DC to lose the bulk of the inheritance you think is due to them because your child will inherit from you?

I think it seems a bit mean that the older two wont get anything from their dad, just because they 'might' inherit from their mum! Who knows what she is going to do with her money. I think you should be going back to basics and doing it in a fairer way than that. My DH is my two elder DDs Step-dad. They will inherit from me equally with the DD that is ours, as that is fair. Anything their dad may or may not leave them has not even been consider, and neither should it be.

If you had older kids you would want it spilt out all evenly if someone happened to you. He had 2 other kids before you, they shouldn't be left out just because they're older.

Christ but I feel sorry for kids whose dads bugger off into new relationships and Family Number 2 (and in this case Family Number 3) as it literally means they become a second class citizen with their own dad.

What makes your child so special that you think they should get a bigger slice? Doesn’t your child have a mum to inherit from too?

Do women who land these men with all these kids not think of these things before getting serious?

He should have life insurance to support the 8 year old and your 18 month old up to 18.

You have no idea what the older children will inherit from their mother! What happens if she remarries, has another child and decides to arrange her Will in the same way as your husband? Or if she lives to old age and her entire assets are used up on care?

I am the mother of my husband's second family. Quite a gap between the two families.

You cannot begin to quantify who had what percentage of your husband's time and money at what point. It is a fools errand that will end in tears.

The way your husband proposes splitting the assets seems reasonable. You will never achieve perfect equity.

Will his other two children inherit anything from their father? Or only their mothers? Will your child inherit from both mother and father?