Will Jargon - Is this poor English or Legal Jargon?!

thegreenone

Have your parents left a letter with their Wills to explain why their other grandchildren have been left out?  Should it be needed.  There is the potential for them to contest the Wills.

TBagpuss

The wording is old fashioned but it does acheive what they wwan.

It means you inherit, if you die before them then it goes to your children, in equal shares.
If any of your children died before your grandparents then that child's share would go to *their* children, but that no grandchild inherits if their parent is still alive.

So if you had three childnre, Janet, John and Basil, if you die before your parent, they each get one third of the estate.

If Janet has two children, Hector and Fergus, and John has one, Alonso, and Basil has none then if Janet both dies before your parents do (and assuming you have also pre-deceacesed them)   the split would be 1/6 each to Hector and Fergus (as they get Janet's share split between them) John gets 1/3, Alonso gets nothing beause John is still alive, and Basil gets 1/3.

The great-grandchildnre get their respective parent's share so your sister's childrne don't come into the pitcure. (If your parnets had made a will in the past which left the estate yto you and your sister in equal shares, and had the same wording, then your sister's half would have gone to her children, becuase she died before your parents did)