disinheriting

The way many estate plans are currently worded could cause them to backfire, either by triggering unnecessary state estate taxes or even accidentally disinheriting a surviving spouse.

Does Your Trust Need a Tune-Up? Kelly Greene 2011

The new Mrs. Kidder filed a motion for summary judgment, and the matter eventually ended up in federal district court in Baton Rouge, which this year awarded the approximately $250,000 in the account to her, disinheriting the children.

Family Feuds: The Battles Over Retirement Accounts Carolyn T. Geer 2011

Berating Jews with their own history, disinheriting them of pity, as though pity is negotiable or has a sell-by date, is the latest species of Holocaust denial, infinitely more subtle than the David Irving version with its clunking body counts and quibbles over gas-chamber capability and chimney sizes.

Howard Jacobson speaks his mind Not a sheep 2009

But he knew the kid was a reprobate, and his will says nothing about disinheriting him for bad behavior.

Why Trial Lawyers Say It Better Adam Freedman 2011

I left off, though, when I became aware that I was being watched by a belted constable with a damned disinheriting moustache, but I've calculated since that I could have cleared ten thousand dollars a year on the streets of Baltimore, easy, which is two thousand quid, sufficient to buy you a lieutenancy in the Guards in those days - and from the look of some of them, I'd not be surprised.

THE NUMBERS 2010

There were two of her ladies with her, and the whole group just looked at me, the women curiously, and Lakshmibai with the same damned disinheriting stare she'd used in the dungeon.

Fiancée 2010

It was then that the princess came in, with her gown all wet from the river, and she knew everything: the acclamation for the duke, the disinheriting of the family.

The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010

Then, in a final twist of fate, when he dies he bequeaths his fortune to the church, disinheriting his children and abandoning his family to poverty.

A Quick Review « Tales from the Reading Room 2008

This was especially the case once Henry resolved his doubts about a female succession by instituting divorce proceedings against Catherine of Aragon in 1527 with the aim of disinheriting Mary.

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

"We are the descendants of a tradition bent on distrusting government in whatever it initiates, and we are disinheriting ourselves with expectations that the rule of law will always properly separate equality from equity, will always value conscience as highly as pious obedience, and with wisdom and proletarian virtue as its strengths, will never advance the majority at the expense of the minority."

Americans Don't Seem To Mind "Surveillance Society" 2009