Leaving daughter out of will, advice needed please.

Gers

Christabel wrote: »

My daughter in her 40s and I have always had a bit of a fraught relationship and now she's basically stopped communicating with me. I've decided to amend my will so that my granddaughter inherits my daughter's share instead. Can my daughter contest this after my death do you think? She has a really good job so will not be disadvantaged by it at all. Should I leave a letter along with the will explaining the situation to make it less likely that she would win if she contested the will? I've just copied by original solicitor-drawn-up will and amended the part where it names my two children to inherit and substituted the words granddaughter and her name in full for my daughter's name. Your advice welcome please.

We are all assuming that you are not living in Scotland where disinheriting children is not possible.

In E&W you can leave it whomever / whatever you like. My preference would be for spending it instead!

Keep_pedalling

Gers wrote: »

We are all assuming that you are not living in Scotland where disinheriting children is not possible.

In E&W you can leave it whomever / whatever you like. My preference would be for spending it instead!

Children in Scotland only have inheritance rights over movable assets, you can cut them out from all heritable property, so it is possible to prevent them from gaining most of your estate by tying it up in property.

Spending or giving away everything is not really a practicable solution unless you know how long you have left to live. We all need a reasonable amount of savings for a comfortable old age, so blowing it all by 70 and living another 20 years in poverty is not the greatest of plans.

Blackpool_Saver

Seriously bad vibes, this will come back to bite you as it should. Not a good idea. Also your poor grand-daughter having this to cope with, imagine the guilt. As for posting your intentions on here, shocking

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Why do people think holding others to ransom over a will is always the answer, how about looking to repair relationships instead.


What happens if granddaughter falls out with you are you going to change your will every time you have an argument ?

Keep_pedalling

Blackpool_Saver wrote: »

Seriously bad vibes, this will come back to bite you as it should. Not a good idea. Also your poor grand-daughter having this to cope with, imagine the guilt. As for posting your intentions on here, shocking

Why are you shocked? The OP is looking for advice and I am not sure how she can get that without providing the facts.

No one is entitled to an inheritance simply for an accident of birth, and we are entitled to leave a our assets to anyone we wish. Yes it is sad that their relationship has broken down this badly but it happens in families, and although this may create friction for the daughter and GD The OP will not be around to be bitten.

She should be honest with her daughter and tell her now not leave it as a nasty surprise after her death.

Blackpool_Saver

Keep_pedalling wrote: »

She should be honest with her daughter and tell her now not leave it as a nasty surprise after her death.

Now that I do agree with.

qwert_yuiop

Keep_pedalling wrote: »

blowing it all by 70 and living another 20 years in poverty is not the greatest of plans.

Think of the memories though. With the risk that at 90 you might not be able to remember what you did the previous evening.

Gers

Keep_pedalling wrote: »

Children in Scotland only have inheritance rights over movable assets, you can cut them out from all heritable property, so it is possible to prevent them from gaining most of your estate by tying it up in property.

Yes, so disinheriting them is not possible. Movable estate follows the legal rights route unless renounced.

onwards&upwards

Blackpool_Saver wrote: »

Seriously bad vibes, this will come back to bite you as it should. Not a good idea. Also your poor grand-daughter having this to cope with, imagine the guilt. As for posting your intentions on here, shocking

This is actually a good point, would you be doing your granddaughter a favour or making your problem her problem?

strawb_shortcake

We have a family friend who informs us that they have written their son out of their will and they paid a lot of money to add a clause that disabled their Son from contesting the will, how true this is I don't know but the fact that so many now and her Son doesn't it's not nice