disinherit

I can’t tell you to disinherit your son and daughter-in-law, and I can’t tell you not to do so.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

As we divest from its dated narratives and disinherit its archetypes, we need artists who are astute and skilled enough to invent new ones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024

Fleming severed his relationship with Monique after his mother threatened to disinherit him, an act that would reverberate across his lifetime in pangs of sadness and despair.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2024

Attorneys for two of Franklin's sons had asserted their half-brother Ted White "wants to disinherit" them.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2023

According to an account recorded by a friend of Stanton’s, her father told her, “Your first lecture will be a very expensive one,” threatening to disinherit her if she went through with it.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

Nearly every state in the U.S. has a version of California’s slayer statute, which effectively disinherits beneficiaries who’ve “feloniously and intentionally” killed their benefactors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

When Morosus’s nephew Henry shows up with his theater troupe, Morosus, appalled at Henry’s chosen career, disinherits him and insults his wife, Aminta.

From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2022

If she disinherits me, her only child, I can’t make it up to my half-siblings.

From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2021

Sebald’s melancholy flâneur, then, already disinherits Baudelaire’s 19th-century optimism.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2013

He disinherits his poor nephew Eugenie, and, to make sure that the latter will not get any money out of him, resolves to marry.

From English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World by William Joseph Long

By then, Evelyn has also learned that Laura’s father disinherited her shortly before his sudden death, though Laura refuses to explain why.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

“I believe there was a will that disinherited us somewhere,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025

For Thurman, hatred is the real threat of occupation because it disguises itself as common sense and self-protection, then spreads through the disinherited as the cancer it becomes.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2024

Years ago I asked to be disinherited but was explicitly denied.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2022

Revenants from forgotten wars, lost causes, failed rebellions, a brotherhood of the failed and the fallen, the disgraced and the disinherited.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

But for Marcus to follow this precedent would mean disinheriting his child.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

She must understand what it means and the effect it will have — in this case, disinheriting her other legal heirs.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 30, 2025

Another post suggested disinheriting children, and deploying "your thoughts about the estrangement in the will as a last word."

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2024

In reality, disinheriting a spouse can be extremely hard to do.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2021

Queen Isabeau, in addition to disinheriting her son in favor of her daughter, was held responsible by her contemporaries for setting the fashion in wasteful and absurd extravagance in dress.

From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton