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[quote=Anonymous]Well that's generous of you, OP and husband.

As the child witness of a family feud centering on a very unequal inheritance that spawned a 25 year legal battle, and an adult witness to my in-laws' more polite negotiations about who gets what, I am strongly convinced that siblings need to receive equal shares, especially if these shares are on the large side and no one is in desperate straights.

If everyone agrees on the distribution, then potential issues arise when the wording of the will is vague, people forget certain provisions, or the executor is incompetent or dishonest.

Make sure everything is written out and agreed upon and signed by everyone, and the executor is a responsible person. This is how my in-laws have, thus far, avoided coming to blows over their inheritance: my husband insisted on writing down all the proposed transactions, current and future, and getting everyone's formal approval. Everything is dated, because they've had to change distribution over the years (my youngest BIL died unexpectedly of a brain tumor) and each new document supersedes previous ones. Otherwise, left to their natural state, memories are HIGHLY unreliable: descendants always tend to forget transactions that benefited them, but always pointedly remember the ones that benefited the other descendants ;-)[/quote]

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