[
UK
/dˌɪsɪnhˈɛɹɪtəns/
]
NOUN
- the act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit
How To Use disinheritance In A Sentence
- There are many horror stories about an ex-spouse getting the proceeds of a big life insurance policy or the accidental disinheritance of a child because the owner never changed the beneficiary," Norfolk warns. How To Protect Your Spouse Financially After You're Gone
- She may or may not have been instrumental in the disinheritance.
- Lionel's inheritance also disappears; after separation, hardship, estrangement, and disinheritance, the Tarrants are happily reconciled, but live separately in London.
- She had barely escaped disinheritance but that didn't stop her from confronting her father or taunting him about her lifestyle.
- For those masters who were also biological fathers to their slaves, the tacit disinheritance had double significance.
- The novel does not, however, present material well-being as synonymous with cultural disinheritance.
- Families routinely shun other family members, whether through disinheritance and outright withdrawal of any contact or support, or the deafening "silent treatment" that some spouses and parents engage in as a form of punishment for real or perceived offenses. Janice Harper: A Reason (and Season) to Stop Shunning
- In one of his books, he writes, "For the other 95 percent of the world's population, conversion to Jesus Christ often means disowning, disinheritance, expulsion, arrest, and even death. Walid Zafar: Ergun Caner, Ex-Muslim Evangelical Leader, Exposed As Fake
- Not surprisingly, Mary would have trouble recruiting aristocratic staff after her disinheritance in 1536. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
- Our minds are constantly troubled by the possibility of discovery, blackmail, disinheritance and murder.