family inheritance
Passed-down family wealth
Family inheritance is property, money, or other assets passed down through generations within a family, typically after someone dies.
The term also covers non-material transmission: genetic traits, cultural traditions, or behavioral patterns that run in families.
Heart disease is part of our family inheritance.
The cottage has been a family inheritance for five generations.
- willFaculty of deliberate choice
- last willPosthumous asset instructions
- DNAHereditary code molecule
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- passing downGiving to successors
estate · folklore · chromosome · custom · probate · heirloom · black sheep · trust · trust fund · trauma · values · epigenetics · blood line · succession · next of kin · primogeniture · ancestry · gene
family inheritanceearned income
Pay from work
self-made wealth · wages · salary · sweat equity · investment returns
family inheritanceself-made success
Achievement without external help
rags-to-riches · new money · climbed the ladder · self-reliance · performance bonus
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