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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Evenly.  My spouse (first and only) have an estate plan that includes trusts to protect our kids' inheritance in the event of death followed by remarriage.  [b]I'll be goddamned if some 2nd wife is going to spend her way through what I've worked for and leave my kids out in the cold.  [/b]

Dividing things up unequally is almost never worth the drama it causes, unless you have one child who is severely disabled, and even then you have to be careful that you don't screw up any benefits they need by leaving them too much money.  Even if one kid is well off and another isn't--fortunes do change.  The well off kid could go through a layoff or become disabled, the not well-off kid could marry rich late in life.  If one kid is getting a lot of gifts during life (for rehab or whatever), even it up while you are alive.[/quote]

This is what my stepmother is doing right now. As soon as she and my father married, she retired and started traveling all over the world. My father is still working (he owns a small business) and I am sure she will spend every last penny he has ever saved. She shops like crazy, has filled his beautiful restored Victorian with tacky Value City furniture, and at Christmas, lavishes her children with thousands of dollars worth of gifts while my sister and I get weird shirts from C-Mart. It is right out of a movie. I have already resigned myself to the fact that my sister and I will get nothing. [/quote]

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