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How to stop a stranger robbing the kids of their inheritance

A few tweaks to your will is all that’s needed to ensure your offspring don’t lose out after one of you dies and the other takes a new partner.

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How would you feel if your estate went to a complete stranger – a person you’d never met? It’s more common than you might expect.

Jack and Jill were married in 1981 and had two children. They were happily married for 32 years. In that time, they both worked and saved and, with help from some late-career compulsory super, built up a tidy nest egg.

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Peter Townsend is principal of Townsend Business & Corporate Lawyers.

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