disinheritance

Cut from will

Disinheritance is the act of cutting someone out of an inheritance, or the state of being cut out.

A parent might threaten disinheritance to control a child's behavior: She lived in fear of disinheritance if she married outside the faith.

The term extends beyond wills to any deprivation of expected legacy or birthright.

legal

heir

One who receives legacy

willFaculty of deliberate choice
testamentWritten proof or legacy
estateProperty and grounds

bequest · probate · succession · beneficiary · executor · testator · codicil · trust · legacy · intestate

familial

estrangement

Emotional separation between people

disownmentRejecting familial ties officially
rejectionDenial of acceptance
alienationState of being isolated

rift · feud · discord · ostracism · exclusion · abandonment · repudiation · severance · rupture · breach

loss

deprivation

State of lacking necessities

dispossessionDeprival of property rights
forfeitLose through violation
bereftDeprived through loss

privation · displacement · void · absence · denial · stripped · deprived · robbed · passing over

Categories

Roman inheritanceheirs, testament, testator, intestate, legatee
family dramafamily bonds, sibling rivalry, family reunion, kinship, family secret
estate planningexecutor, trust, beneficiary, will, probate
inheritanceinheritances, heir, heirs, bequest, bequests
successionheir apparent, heir presumptive, line of succession, primogeniture, successor
toxic familydysfunction, broken home, family secret, scapegoat, golden child

Opposites

legal/financial transfer at death

disinheritanceinheritance

Property received from ancestors

bequest · legacy · heirship · endowment · patrimony

familial recognition and belonging

disinheritanceinclusion

Being made part

acceptance · recognition · acknowledgment · reinstatement · embrace

Family

disinheritances

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