{"id":506860,"date":"2026-03-06T08:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506860\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:05:10","slug":"the-pros-and-cons-of-giving-your-children-their-inheritance-while-youre-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506860\/","title":{"rendered":"The pros and cons of giving your children their inheritance while you\u2019re still alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Can\u2019t decide on the \u2018right\u2019 time? Here\u2019s what you need to consider\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"If you don\u2019t want your children to have to wait until you\u2019re gone, what is the case for early inheritance? Photo: Getty.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dd1b5f4e-7146-4862-97b0-2efa7fc9198c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">If you don\u2019t want your children to have to wait until you\u2019re gone, what is the case for early inheritance? Photo: Getty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A financial adviser I know has a tip for retired couples who ask for advice on what to do with their pension lump sum, especially if they\u2019re nervous about spending it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">His recommendation: \u201cIf you don\u2019t fly first class, your son-in-law will.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can\u2019t decide on the \u2018right\u2019 time? Here\u2019s what you need to consider If you don\u2019t want your children&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[230451,230450,59405,9190,28,230449,5722,230452,147,530,57787,212004,3733],"class_list":{"0":"post-506860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-allied-irish-banks","9":"tag-an-post","10":"tag-bank-of-ireland","11":"tag-banking","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-farming-tax","14":"tag-pensions","15":"tag-permanent-tsb","16":"tag-personal-finance","17":"tag-personalfinance","18":"tag-revenue-commissioners","19":"tag-sinead-ryan","20":"tag-tax"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}