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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does she think your kids are the only grandkids she will have?  Maybe the wife can't have/doesn't want any, but your brother could have kids later with someone else.[/quote]

This raises an interesting question though, if as a grandparent you want to leave to your grandkids, how do you do so given that it may still be possible for you to have more?  Even if you give to your kids 50/50 with the intent that X% go to their kids,[b] one could have more children than the other[/b].[/quote]

Which is why you should allocate inheritances equally among your children, not among your grandchildren.  Your own children and their families will understand that concept.  To do otherwise is to indicate favoritism, which might be your intent.

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But if you want to provide to your grandchildren and you divide it among your children, you are favoring the grandchild with less siblings, no?  For example let's say grandparents have two kids and want to help with the education of their grandkids, and say child A has one kid and child B has two.  They could provide the same amount of money to each kid to pay for college of their kid(s), but then  the grandparents have favored child of A over the children of kid B, no?  Child of A will have more money for school than the children of B who have to split.  I guess it depends on who they are trying to give to--their kids or their grandkids.  How does it show favoritism to a child to give the same amount to each grandchild?  So if grandparents spend $50 on each grandchild for the holidays, their favoring their kid who had two kids over the one who had one? [/quote]

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