0 to prevent someone, especially a son or daughter who has made you angry, from receiving any of your property after your death: --
A testator, for utterly unjustifiable reasons, disinherits a spouse or child, and nothing happens afterwards because the will cannot be disputed.
The real problem with social security is not lone parents: it is disinherited young men.
There might be a kind of rough justice about it if the only people he can disinherit are his own children.
For the most part they are absolutely landless, absolutely disinherited of their share in the common gift of nature to the community.
The father of a family, animated it may be by some whim or caprice, can with a stroke of the pen disinherit his entire family.
Many children are disinherited by a parent entering a care home.
However, for several reasons outlined below, a strengthening of women's rights only as widows is inadequate for their economic security if they continue to be disinherited as daughters.
Rising dowries became considerable portions of family wealth, to the extent that endowing daughters often equated to disinheriting sons (another evidence of families not being entirely male-oriented).
