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

Jose was planning to disinherit the brothers because he considered them failures, according to court filings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2025

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

He told the jury White “wants to disinherit his two brothers. Teddy wants it all.”

From Washington Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

Peace wanted to get a divorce and change his will to disinherit his wife.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

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

From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2021

He disinherits Lewis, leaving him only the ill-fated collection.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2015

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

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2013

For whatsoe'er we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate, which in success often disinherits, for spurious causes, noblest merits.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 5, 1890 by Various

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

I’m also confused as to how your half siblings are connected to you being disinherited by your mom.

From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2021

Out of the magazines I read came a passionate call for the experiences of the disinherited, and there were none of the lame lispings of the missionary in it.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

“A lot of parents in new relationships end up, unbeknownst to them, disinheriting their children,” said Stacy Francis, a New York City-based certified financial planner.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

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

As for your disinheriting him, and spending all your money on machinery to roast pigs,—I say you can't do it.

From The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope