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How to stop your new partner pinching your kids’ inheritance
This is also helpful if your children’s parent is the remaining spouse because it quarantines the estate from potential new relationships.
Peter TownsendContributorSo much estate planning these days is focused on trying to protect the inheritance of the deceased’s children by endowing the estate in such a way that the surviving spouse does not inherit it outright.
If the surviving spouse is the parent of the deceased’s children, the kids’ inheritance could be at risk from a later partner of that surviving spouse – either on their death or the breakdown of that later relationship.
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