inheritance

Example Sentences

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To equalize your grandchildren’s inheritance later, you can adjust the distribution in your will or trust, reducing their shares by the amount you have already given each of them.

From MarketWatch

Is there any way to protect our inheritance?

From MarketWatch

I wondered if she makes a conscious effort to protect her children from the traumatic inheritance of genocide.

From BBC

I want to leave them each an inheritance from investments that will become available when they become 18.

From MarketWatch

In some states, this might go beyond inheritance and apply to jointly held property, insurance policies and other kinds of accounts.

From Salon