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[quote=Anonymous]I think it's more common to leave to your children, with the expectation that if anything is left over they will leave to their children (i.e. your grandchildren). My parents are currently doing extensive estate planning, and they are leaving everything to us (notably, though, my brother doesn't have kids yet so it would be harder to be equitable and also leave to grandkids).

A couple of exceptions:
- My parents are immigrants from a very patriarchal culture. My grandfather explicitly set aside a small inheritance for each of his grand-daughters (highly unusual), knowing the rest would pass to his sons (no aunts on my dad's side). My dad is distributing equally to each of us, but I could see my uncle not doing so.

- My FIL is terrible with money, so DH's maternal grandfather actually left his estate to DH and his sister. He put it in the form of a trust, though, so that MIL and FIL get a fixed amount of the interest. They can't access the principle. This is a pretty unusual situation, though.[/quote]

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