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Term Definition Disinherit; Disinheritance - depriving a rightful heir of his or her inheritance.
Application in Divorce State laws prohibit spouses from disinheriting one another. Regardless of a will, a estate.

Sometimes people bequeath one dollar to an evidence that he or she was not forgotten.

See also Inheritance Expectancies.