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Originally Posted by llama64
What I find abhorrent is the concept that the children deserve ANY of their parents estate.
If my parents leave me stuff, cool. But I'm sure as hell not going to fight for it. I'm man enough to make my own wealth.
Thank god I'm not having kids... means I can leave my wealth to the cute nurse who looks after me just before I die.
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There are public policy reasons for some of this stuff.
What if you have a child who's a quadriplegic or low-functioning Down's syndrome afflicted person and then another child that doesn't have these challenges. As a parent, the smart plan would be to leave all your estate to the "healthy" child and let society bear the burden of raising or caring for your dependant child.
There is legislation in Alberta to avoid exatly this sort of scenario so that parents can't ignore depedants in the will, although I generally advise clients that there is no positive obligation to leave anything to adult independant children.