Has anyone made their eldest child the legal guardian of their youngest?

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Sorting out wills etc, I have an adult child and an 8 year old, and panicking about guardianship (toxic family on my side that have told me without question they will have my children if anything happened to me!) if the worst was to happen to me and my husband.
Has anyone done this?

No, but why wouldn't you? Sounds like a great idea to me. Just make sure adult child is on board?

No, but was planning to, however youngest is nearly 18 now . The only reason I didn't was procrastination!

Yes. We re-did our wills as soon as DD1 was 18 for that specific purpose. There is also a trust in place for a few years to help DD1 manage money as she has AS and could need support with that. She'd still be an awesome parent to DD2 compared with any of the other options we have.

Thank you for your replies.

My eldest is on board so I will get the ball rolling!

I certaily had a "letter of wishes" with the will saying I wanted the older ones to care for the twins in their home as their adult sibling(s) lived here - that has gone now they are all 18 (and I could not remove their father's legal right to them if I died of course - we were divorced but the letter was helpful in its time - not that I did die during their infancy).

Yes. I was this for my youngest sibling. 13 year age gap. She asked for it herself as she didn't want to live with our father or father's family if our mum died. Never needed in the end, fortunately!

Yes, quite a few of my clients have done this, but I'd suggest that you also appoint someone a little older who'd be able to offer guidance.