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“A parent can disinherit a child, leaving them nothing,” according to Albertson & Davidson, a law firm with offices across southern California.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025

Jose was planning to disinherit the brothers because he considered them failures, according to court filings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2025

Fleming severed his relationship with Monique after his mother threatened to disinherit him, an act that would reverberate across his lifetime in pangs of sadness and despair.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2024

Attorneys for two of Franklin's sons had asserted their half-brother Ted White "wants to disinherit" them.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2023

According to an account recorded by a friend of Stanton’s, her father told her, “Your first lecture will be a very expensive one,” threatening to disinherit her if she went through with it.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

Nearly every state in the U.S. has a version of California’s slayer statute, which effectively disinherits beneficiaries who’ve “feloniously and intentionally” killed their benefactors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

When Morosus’s nephew Henry shows up with his theater troupe, Morosus, appalled at Henry’s chosen career, disinherits him and insults his wife, Aminta.

From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2022

If she disinherits me, her only child, I can’t make it up to my half-siblings.

From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2021

Sebald’s melancholy flâneur, then, already disinherits Baudelaire’s 19th-century optimism.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2013

The papers say that her father disinherits her, but I think too well of an Orde to suppose that she has not a handsome independence of her own.

From Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record by William Austen-Leigh

All of the relatives are morally superior to Becket; after all, it’s not their fault he was disinherited.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

“I believe there was a will that disinherited us somewhere,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025

Howard Thurman said, “There is one overmastering problem that the socially and politically disinherited always face: under what terms is survival possible?”

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2024

Years ago I asked to be disinherited but was explicitly denied.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2022

In the 1964 “long, hot summer” riots in major cities across the United States, the socially disinherited black ghetto youth were always at the forefront.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

But for Marcus to follow this precedent would mean disinheriting his child.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

There are also legal means for disinheriting family members, and failing to include proper ‘no contest’ clauses can lead to expensive litigation, it adds.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2025

Another post suggested disinheriting children, and deploying "your thoughts about the estrangement in the will as a last word."

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2024

If your spouse isn’t willing, you can talk to the attorney about your options, but understand that disinheriting them may not be possible.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2021

See Children, Wife: disinheriting a son, 58, 168, 169 giving dowry to a daughter, votary of Marduk, 59, 60 rights, duties, and responsibilities of, 148 sq.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns