Disinherit Our Son Due To His Life Choices?
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🗓️ 7 September 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by CHM, a biblically based alternative to health insurance. Learn more at |
| 0:06.9 | CH Ministries.org slash budget. I've got a question about our will. My wife is 63, or 62, I'm 64. |
| 0:16.4 | We have two children and adult children, and we have right now our will divided 50-50. |
| 0:23.9 | My son has a history of blowing money, and we have stopped helping some years ago. |
| 0:31.1 | Also, there's other concerns. |
| 0:33.0 | He's in a lifestyle and a relationship that we don't agree with. |
| 0:36.9 | And so the question is really simple. |
| 0:39.8 | Is it appropriate to change the will where one adult child is a beneficiary of, you know, |
| 0:46.7 | a decreased amount? |
| 0:49.3 | Yes. |
| 0:50.5 | It's totally appropriate. |
| 0:53.4 | Okay. |
| 0:53.6 | But the goal not is not to be a punishing force |
| 0:58.3 | exactly the goal is to i don't want to finance things i don't agree with okay okay with my death |
| 1:06.6 | okay and so um the my value system is not matching and so uh i'm not going to uh finance you know |
| 1:16.7 | an extreme situation that i always used just to kind of illustrate the concept and it's not |
| 1:21.3 | what you're you've got but i mean if your kids doing heroin and you leave them a bunch of |
| 1:25.0 | money you killed them because they're going to overdose because they got there are now well-financed heroin addict and so |
| 1:31.6 | you know you're not you're not doing them a favor to finance their bad choices |
| 1:37.6 | from the grave and so is this something we communicate yes god. Otherwise, you're going to destroy his relationship with his brother. The sibling. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's a daughter and the son. Yeah, you're going to destroy it because you're going to leave all this to the daughter, and then when you pass away. He's going to be pissed at her like she did something and she didn't do anything. So, and, you know, and, you know, John makes some, how, what's the gentlest? |
| 2:07.6 | Because, again, you want to make sure you're not using, if it's me, I would have a tendency to be doling this out as punishment. |
| 2:17.2 | And I have to make sure i get my heart |
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