Should two adult children be treated differently re inheritance, because one has children and the other one does not, by choice or not?

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I would argue that they should both be treated the same.

I think adult children should be treated the same. However I don't think grandchildren inheriting in their own right as unfair treatment on the childless adult.

I think they should be treated the same. Maybe with a bit going straight to GC. My GPs left £10k each to my sibling and I and it was much appreciated and enabled me to go travelling and buy and carpet my first house (a while ago obviously 😂).

No. Both treated the same

Is this you with the thread about 3 kids in private school again?

I think they should be treated fairly (maybe not exactly the same as the grandchild’s also are separate direct descendants of the deceased)

It's up to the parents who they give their money too.

Personally, I'm giving my children equal shares, regardless of the amount of children they have. I hope they understand from this that I love them equally. Which I do.

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And in that scenario, the grandchildren were the ones who "inherited"

Exactly the same.

I think they should be treated the same ,i know that my parents will is that myself and my sister will inherit 50% each we both have two children who will indirectly benefit from that.

Adult DC should be treated the same , but I'd also leave some to the GC.

The adult children should be treated the same. A small bequest to grandchildren is fine but not at the expense of the childless adult.

So for example a nominal £5000 to each grandchild and the rest 50/50 to the adults.

I agree

The adult children should be treated the same, but if the rand children inherit that is separate from their parents and nothing to do with the adult children’s inheritance. So if there’s £200k estate, and the adult children get £50k each, and the two grandchildren get £50k each, that’s fair.

The same.

They should be treated equally.

Also, I was on another thread yesterday with a similar question. Several posters pointed out that sometimes people say they're childfree by choice when in fact it wasn't a choice but was too painful to tell others, so they pretend it was a choice.

If you aren't the poster writing about the private school fees...

I think that in normal circumstances only the children should inherit - and equally - from the parents. If people want to leave their grandchildren something then it should be a token figure, depending on what's being left to the children.

I always think child free by choice is a funny one in these circumstances. What's the difference wrt inheritance?

In an inheritance I think they should be treated the same but while the person is alive it is up to them how they spend their money and it doesn’t have to be equal. So for example if they spent £100 each on the children’s Christmas presents they don’t have to then get a bigger present for the childless sibling to make the spending up to same amount.

same with something like school fees, if the grandparent wanted to pay for their grandchildren to attend private school thst is up to them. It would be a different scenario if the childrens parents had asked the grandparent for an advance on their inheritance and the money was lent on thst basis

Treat the same, not all of my siblings or DHs siblings have dc and don’t plan too. I wouldn’t expect to inherit more because I have dc.

Of course, it's a given and shouldn't change on the basis of their life choices.

What difference does it make if they don’t have dc by choice or not?

I always think adult children should be treated the same in inheritance situations regardless of their circumstances.

I think there are certain circumstances whereby siblings do not get the same amount of inheritance , eg had money before, abuse, alcoholism, drug addiction etc.

No one should judge and its up to the person writing the will to decide who their money goes to.

An inheritance isn't a given right.

Why should they? Myself and DH have 6 children between us ... only 5 are in our will!

The 6th had a hell of a lot of making up to do before his names gets added... which includes getting out of prison for sexual offences.

It's our money... we will leave it to who ever we like

One of my cousins is wealthy, earns 500k plus a yr etc. When his parents died the inheritance was split four ways as the will was equal. Rich cousin gave most of his inheritance back to the other siblings as he doesn’t need it. I know that my aunt and uncle would have hoped for that but would never have considered not doing an equal will.