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“A parent can disinherit a child, leaving them nothing,” according to Albertson & Davidson, a law firm with offices across southern California.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025

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

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

From BBC ● 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

When Daemon's conduct becomes intolerable, Viserys disinherits and banishes him.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2022

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

Chapter 6 of the treaty disinherits the Dauphin; chapter 29 proclaims him an enemy of France.

From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin

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

Did your brother know she would be disinherited, and if so, why?

From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2022

In the 1964 “long, hot summer” riots in major cities across the United States, the socially disinherited black ghetto youth were always at the forefront.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

There are also legal means for disinheriting family members, and failing to include proper ‘no contest’ clauses can lead to expensive litigation, it adds.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 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

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

The Archbishop was attainted for treason, although he had utterly refused to subscribe the King’s letters patent for the disinheriting of his sisters.

From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Holt, Emily Sarah