Inheritance

[Sillyme1]

Am I being unreasonable to feel that adult children who do nothing to support elderly parents, do not ring, even when said elderly parents are I hospital, they cannot expect to receive an inheritance when said parents die?

Nobody should “expect” inheritance regardless of their decisions and actions. Personally, if I have anything left, it be equally split between my children. That will be not be dependent on whether they do things that benefit me. It’s not a transaction, it’s a gift.

A relative through marriage complained to me when his MIL's partner died. Understandably, to my mind, the partner had left everything to the MIL. (He had no children of his own and had got together with the MIL in middle age.)

The relative was upset that nothing had been left to his daughter, on the grounds that the daughter (no more than 7 yrs old at the time) had called the partner 'Grandad'. In his mind, the use of the title meant that the daughter was owed an inheritance: it wasn't enough that her inheritance would eventually reach her via her grandmother and her parent.

I admit to being taken aback - apart from anything else, the will was probably written before the grandchild was born.

The irony is that when the relative died, it turned out that he had not got round to writing his own will.

I guess it depends on the person who has passed and what they have in their will, it’s really nothing to do with the other family members

No one should expect an inheritance, no one should be obliged to care for a person for an inheritance.

That’s not quite true, if you are married and die your children are able to claim towards a third of the parents estate but if you aren’t married they can claim against a half of the parents estate

my mum has not long written her will and wants to leave my brother as little as possible as he is an addict and this is what she was told. Since there are 2 siblings he is entitled to 25% of our mums movable estate eg bank accounts.