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

“If you’re not in Gryffindor, we’ll disinherit you,” said Ron, “but no pressure.”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

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

Then, says he, `Asa, boy that act disinherits you, but it leaves all my property to one who has a better right to it.

From Our American Cousin by Tom Taylor

A bitter man, George Tennyson had been disinherited by his own father and forced into holy orders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

Callum Flannelly is a painfully shy undertaker in Ireland who will be disinherited if he doesn’t marry by the time he’s 35.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024

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

No one will be forced into a relationship with C that they don’t want to have, and no one will be confused about their own parentage or disinherited.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2020

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

“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

If your spouse isn’t willing, you can talk to the attorney about your options, but understand that disinheriting them may not be possible.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2021

I can’t help being blunt, and being very angry, too, when I hear you talk of disinheriting so good, so worthy a young gentleman as your nephew, my master.

From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker