The Will of A Will (May 2025 Challenge Question)

The boy should inherit 50% and the girl and mother each 25%...

Leaving wealth in a Will to a minor (someone under-16) is fraught with legal obstacles in the UK, as a minor does not have sufficient status to enter into contracts with anyone, such consent remaining with the surviving parent or a (number of) guardian(s). Putting it into a Trust fund administered by nominated adults before the age of maturity is a solution.

One hopes that William took appropriate legal advice before documentation and commitment, otherwise the Will is invalid and the Wife gets the lot.

So according to William's Testament, if his wife gives birth to a boy she gets a 1/3.
So that leaves 2/3. According to his Will if his wife gives birth to a daughter, she gets 2/3, so the wife gets it all.

As mentioned in the note, I see 2 logical ways to solve the problem:

1. Split the fortune in 2 equal parts and apply the will to each part. In this way the wife will get 1/6+1/3=1/2, the boy will get 2/6=1/3 and the girl will get 1/6 of the fortune.
2. Consider only the first born, since the will considers only one child. In this way the wife and the first born will get the shares as stated in the will and the second born will get nothing.

What happens with twins - consider both cases: identical and fraternal?

What happens if the child, or the children, fail to survive to maturity?

They can't be identical if one is a boy and one is a girl.

If the first born is a girl,1/3 of the estate is already claimed by her. The remaining 2/3 will be split with 2/3 (of the remaining 2/3) going to the boy, and 1/3 going to the mother.

If the firstborn is a boy, the first 2/3 is already claimed, so the remaining 1/3 will be divided proportionally as per the will.

If it was just a boy he would have received 2/3 of the estate and the mother 1/3....clearly the man wanted the majority of the estate to go to a son if he had one....the addition of the girl calls for both the son and the mother to give part of that inheritance to the girl....so the boy goes from 2/3 to 1/2 and the mother goes from 1/3 to 1/4...with the girl receiving 1/4....the boy gives up 1/6 and the mother gives up 1/12 since she has half what the boy has, that makes the contribution of the mother and son equal in percentage...

Rixter, I see you bid and raise you in today’s world…

The wife declares the boy is transgendered…and turns the boy into a girl.

the wife gets 2/3, and each girl gets 1/6.

she then marry’s the Gardener that she was having relations with, only to find out, that the gardener is actually a transgender male and is now pregnant and is now in talks with his/them/they attorney , which happens to be the gardeners sister with talks of planning to sue the pregnant wife after her husband passes to get the 2/3’s inheritance the widow will receive as well suing for child support of $53,000/month.

They’re just trying to find out who the transgender gardener baby father is. They’re positive, they can come up with some sort of ‘Immaculate Conception’ defense… it’s reported that if they get the right judge that it’ll be a slam dunk case.

what a world ehhh?

The boy countersues claiming he was male at birth, which was when the inheritance was to take place, and what happened afterward is non-consequential...the wife then sues her gardener wife/husband for fraud in misrepresenting himself/herself in the contract of marriage, and has the marriage annulled, claiming $2 mil in damages...they all go broke paying lawyers fees....

As the old saying goes" Where there is a will, there is a way".

The modern version" Where there is a will, there is a lawyer."

Hey, who gave you next weeks script.