Difficult, but possible

Difficult: How to disinherit your ungrateful children

Sometimes parents and children become estranged and no longer have any contact until the time of death.

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Back when they were babies, they were so sweet - and years later everything is different: if you also have problems with your descendants and would prefer to leave them nothing, you should not miss out on our tips from the legal experts - "disinheriting" is not easy in itself.

We would all like to be happy and content with our families for the rest of our lives - but things can actually turn out quite differently: It is not uncommon for parents and children to fall out, and all too often contact ends. However, if the offspring are not to receive any of the inheritance, this is only possible in very few cases: "This requires legally defined, serious grounds for disinheritance," emphasize inheritance law experts Vincent Schneider and Wendelin Moritz as part of our series on the topic of inheritance.