{"id":540076,"date":"2026-03-23T08:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/540076\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:04:09","slug":"even-the-simple-distribution-of-heirlooms-can-become-contentious-how-to-divide-inheritance-in-blended-families-and-avoid-arguments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/540076\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Even the simple distribution of heirlooms can become contentious\u2019 \u2013 how to divide inheritance in blended families and avoid arguments"},"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\">Estate planning in blended families means leaving nothing to chance\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A new marriage often revokes a previous will. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a3be0948-ed71-4b04-9997-19c8de264988.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)\">A new marriage often revokes a previous will. 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)\">\u201cThe Succession Act is like the bible when it comes to probate and wills and protesting wills. Stepchildren are not mentioned at all in the Succession Act,\u201d explains Jacquelyn Dunne, solicitor with Dunne Solicitors, referring to the 1965 legislation to reform the law relating to the inheritance of a person\u2019s property on their death.<\/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)\">She gives an example of the kind of issues a couple who are married for a second time might encounter around planning the inheritance of their estate. Mary has two adult children from her first marriage. She has remarried John and they have happily lived together for 20 years in a house Mary owns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Estate planning in blended families means leaving nothing to chance A new marriage often revokes a previous will.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,2700,147,530,204940,231243],"class_list":["post-540076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-shp","tag-signature-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540076","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=540076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}