Why don't sole beneficiaries of a will share more?

[malificent7]

I mean in cases where it's clearly unfair. Such as the step mum inheriting all when there are children about or one sibling unexpectedly inheriting everything.
Jusr a bit shocked about inheritance threads ( and concerned about my own stepmum getting everything).

I don't understand why you feel entitled to anything? Would you be happy showing your dad this thread? My parents' money is their money and if they feel strongly about the cats home, great. And why on earth should your step mum consider sharing anything with you if she doesn't have to, when you're hardly worried about her future?

You were the child, not the parent. Parents have obligations to children, no matter how old they are, that children simply do not have to parents. No, not supporting them financially their entire lives (because you know someone is going to pretend to think that's what I'm saying), but you don't abandon them and you don't set conditions on them for your love, especially not your last unanswerable act of love. Clearly your mother had a hand in your estrangement and you didn't just drive away a wonderful parent with your inexplicable awfulness.

I'm very sorry for what you've gone through.

PotatoPudding · 27/03/2024 16:48
People are money grabbing shits. My sister keeps arguing against our mum going into sheltered accommodation or moving to a manageable bungalow because it will mean less money for her to inherit.”

Thats terrible. I hope no-one is paying any attention?

How do you know the mother didn't leave the father??? Stop jumping to conclusions to back up your narrative.

The children themselves said they stopped coming over as it upset their mother too much and felt obliged to take her side. It's the mother who's wrong in this scenario, she put her own feelings above her kids, she ruined the relationship with their father. If the kids want to see him they see him because he's their dad, not because he has money now x

My husband and I have set up a trust.

If I die everything I have goes to my husband. If he remarries and then dies, it goes to our son and not to his new wife.

Such as the step mum inheriting all when there are children

If a father died while still married to his children’s biological mother, would you think it was ‘clearly unfair’ that she inherited everything as the father’s wife? Or is it only when the wife is the second wife that the kids should get their claws into a chunk of the money?

Thank you @NonPlayerCharacter.
What was even more galling was the fact that I'd been a shoulder to cry on on numerous occasions when she fell out with my sister.
When I said "Surely as a parent you want your children to be happy and I was in an unhappy marriage" her reply was "But what will people say?"

Sadly that was more important than her child's wellbeing.

Life isn't fair.
Nobody is entitled to anyone else's money.

Some people shouldn't be parents.

@cadburyegg so sorry to hear your story, I suspect that's a more often than though of set of circumstances as well.

With my Stepchildren (adults now) I have an amazing relationship with one and the other is not welcome in our home after a few events, both stand to inherit colossally from their mother/grandparents.

I on the other hand have no children and have no expectations of any inheritance from family members so although I will leave a token from their father if he goes before me? I certainly won't be splitting my half a million that I bought into the party ten years ago with them.

Dare I say it, one stepchild may well benefit far more than his sibling. In Mumsnet terms that has me in line for a public flogging