My Stepdad Is Leaving My Mom With NOTHING If He Passes

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🗓️ 20 July 2025

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0:06.6	I was wondering, my stepdad is in his 80s, and my mom is in her 60s, and he is likely to pass before her.
0:14.6	But through their pre-ups, he will not be leaving her anything, and she is not that well off.
0:19.7	I was wondering if that's right or not.
0:22.8	How long they've been married?
0:25.3	Five years.
0:26.7	Okay.
0:29.4	Well, I mean, it's what she signed up for.
0:32.8	So it's not morally wrong.
0:37.8	But I would, you know, I would come down on the side of, I wouldn't do that to my wife.
0:44.4	So.
0:46.6	Right.
0:47.1	I don't think she needs to be treated as like one of his kids equally maybe, but maybe to leave her something so that she's not a destitute widow.
0:56.0	Yeah, well, she, they've been married, they've been married for how long?
0:59.9	Five years.
1:01.1	Okay, so she's 60 and she was 55.
1:05.2	She had no money when she was 55?
1:08.6	She had no savings.
1:10.3	She went into this, she went into this marriage destitute.
1:15.6	Pretty much.
1:17.9	Well, then she's not net destitute now.
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