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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Somewhat of a tangent but: Something isn’t sitting right with all the “second wife” sniping. The “second wife” is just the wife. His wife, who he expects to be his partner for the rest of his life. The money that is his (theirs) is NOT YOURS. No adult child is entitled to mandate that their parents preserve a certain amount of money while they live in order to pass it along to the children when they die. If you do inherit something from your parents, good for you, but that is your windfall and not your entitlement. [/quote]

I think people are griping about their mom's inheritance. Imagine your mom passing, dad marrying someone else and everything ending up with the "second" wife. Even their mom's personal belongings or mom's inheritance from her parents/grandparents. It's common to leave everything to the spouse, who then obviously leaves everything to their "second" spouse. I'm not a lawyer, so would think the laws would now accommodate re-marriages, but perhaps not so well. In old times when everything went to the male heir, it solved this problem. [/quote]

Thanks for this perspective. I’m the PP. I think it’s odd that the second spouse would want to hang on to the possessions of her predecessor but maybe we are talking more about family heirloom type stuff, which I still put in the category of property that the surviving parent (the father) is allowed to dispose of as he sees fit - which may be at a garage sale while he is alive or via bequest to his surviving second spouse when he dies. A lot of people do not put much thought into their wills, divvying up what should go to whom, and that is understandable IMO. [/quote]

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