{"id":211202,"date":"2025-10-13T22:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/211202\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T22:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:08:09","slug":"understanding-property-rights-in-blended-family-inheritance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/211202\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding property rights in blended family inheritance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Ms Wise, my father is 70 and remarried several years ago after my mother died. His wife \u2013 like him \u2013 is a self-funded retiree and independently well off. He has always said he intends to leave the family home, worth about $10 million, to my sister and I with the proviso that if he dies first, our stepmother can stay on in the home until her death. What needs to happen for this to stand up legally, and what are the ramifications? Ben<\/p>\n<p>A: Your father\u2019s plan \u2013 to leave the home to his children while making sure his wife is secure if he dies first \u2013 is common, says MaryAnn de Mestre, principal at M de Mestre Lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dear Ms Wise, my father is 70 and remarried several years ago after my mother died. His wife&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,99,186,184,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-211202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}