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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My siblings and I were recently informed that we will each get $100K and our two half siblings (same mom) will split the rest of the estate (about $10M). My mother and stepfather married when I was five and had two children together. We all lived in the same house together (not in the same state ans my father but we visited him regularly). Our father passed away suddenly and tragically a couple of years ago and we will receive an inheritance from him, but nothing mindblowing.

No sibling issues because no one was consulted but WTAF?[/quote]

You aren’t giving us enough details. You guys all share the same mother, but not the same father. Did the father make the vast majority of the money? Did the father bring lots of family money into the family? I’m talking about your stepfather, not your biological father. If he had family money, he might be literally unable to leave money to his stepchildren. I specifically had my dad‘s attorney. Write the trust agreement so that I could leave it to stepchildren, but that’s not necessarily common. [/quote]

This!
DH and I set up a trust so that only OUR children can inherit in the case that one of us dies or we divorce.  So if one remarries and has additional kids a new trust needs to be created with the new parent for those children.  The amounts in the trusts might be vastly different depending on the wealth of the new spouse.

OP, I can see how this might be hurtful that your stepfather (and/or his family) set this up for his biological kids, but this is quite common.  In our case, we did it to protect our children so that a second spouse cannot access the money easily.[/quote]

He is an orphan from the silent generation and he made all of the money himself. The stepkids existed BEFORE the half siblings. He helped raise the stepkids. Not the same facts. There will be no new spouses and we are not from a subsequent marriage. My mom is his same age. [/quote]

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