[HPforGrownups] Re: Question about the inheritance thread...

[Robert A. Rosenberg]

No: HPFGUIDX 66585

At 10:57 AM -0500 on 07/01/2003, jennifer.r.junker at wellsfargo.com 
wrote about Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Question about the inheritance 
thre:

>There did use to be (and may still be for all I know) a peculiar system in
>the UK (and elsewhere) that prohibited the free devise of property- property
>could be entailed so that it HAD to pass to the eldest son- or eldest male
>relative if there was no son (which left many widows at the mercy of their
>own sons since the property title changed hands at the death of the
>husband.)

I Can see that for Titles/Etc.

OTOH, I seem to remember that a "Life Benefit" provision in a Will is 
Possible (such as a secondary dwelling and a Monetary Support Fund 
going to the Widow [along with a Dowager title if the Husband has a 
title]) with the Estate only getting her bequests back at the time of 
her death.