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I have seen so many fights over inheritance. My mother and her siblings were locked in a 25 year court battle over their father's will because their brother stole his sisters' inheritance. My BIL is making jealous noises over my MIL's plan for her inheritance, because he's not happy his two brothers will get more, for various reasons that MIL has spelled out clearly and in advance.

And here I am, with one child with special needs who might have difficulty getting or keeping jobs, and one highly-functional child. I am tempted to divide my estate equally between them, just because no matter how I explain it, the child who has less might always feel slighted. Also because I don't know what the future will bring to either one. But it will also depend on how my child with SN grows up and how functional he gets.

The best I can do is work on our family bond, and make sure they appreciate one another, so that if ever one needs help after I'm gone, the other will be OK stepping in.
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I would give evenly to both of your children. I have a SN sibling and it wasn't an easy childhood. Luckily sibling is doing very well now.

My mom's cousin's kid (my 2nd cousin?) is SN and he inherited everything. The issue was that to get into the group home that he wanted to be in (a house with a house mom and 5 adults), he had to spend down his inheritance. So maybe in that case equal inheritance might have been better so that his siblings could help him financially later. [/quote]

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