Valid Reasons to Disinherit a Child in BC

BC courts look at what the will says and the facts behind it. Reasons that can hold up include serious mistreatment of the will-maker, an estrangement caused by the person left out, or generous gifts already made during the will-maker’s lifetime.

Learn more

• Estranged Daughter Left Out of Will: A Case Study

Full transcript

Okay, and what reasons for disinheritance do courts actually accept? Reasons for disinheritance that the courts might accept that could range from, it depends on what is actually written in the will and what the facts are in terms of how they came to the reason of disinheriting them. So, it could be, it could range anything from mistreatment and estrangement that was the fault of the disappointed beneficiary and that mistreatment could be pretty extreme including elder abuse or financial abuse. And other reasons of disinheritance is just that they’ve been provided for well enough already during their lifetime to the point where there is not as much compared to be left in the estate itself and there are other people who have not been provided for who need to be provided for.

General information, not legal advice.