Wealthy Father Under No Obligation to Maintain His Healthy Adult Daughters
5th August, 2021Parents generally owe no legal duty financially to maintain their adult children. That principle proved decisive in the case of a businessman who was worth almost £2.2 million when he died, but who left not a penny to his daughters. Having enjoyed a rewarding career in accountancy and merchant banking, the man died at the age of 68 from a brain tumour. By his will, he left almost all of his estate to his second wife. He bequeathed nothing to the two daughters of his first marriage, which had lasted...