Word: disinherit
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...even the not particularly rich sometimes want to disinherit a spouse. "There are a surprising number of people who have been separated for decades but have never been divorced," says Whitman. She advises clients who have been given grim prognoses to be thorough: divorce, rewrite the will and check all beneficiary designations. "You don't want the spouse from three spouses ago getting the life insurance...
...unauthorized biography, Prince Charming, British journalist Wendy Leigh, who wrote a notorious book about John's cousin-in-law Arnold, chronicles the life of the man whom the gods have denied nothing. We learn that he crawled through fish guts in a fraternity initiation, that his mother threatened to disinherit him when he considered a career as an actor, that he lunched with Julia Roberts and slept with Madonna (that relationship didn't work out, we're told, because ''Madonna came on far too strong for him. Blatant sexuality really embarrasses John''). According to the book, he flamed out with...
...mind a dignified profession for me. I had to sit down and explain to her why I was in the A.N.C. She became so convinced that later she said to me, ''If you don't join other children and fight for our liberation, I am going to disinherit you.'' DE KLERK: My brother was a very liberal editor of a daily newspaper. He was criticizing us, he was urging us to do what we are doing now. My father ((a Cabinet minister in three apartheid governments)) would agree with me today; he died in 1979. I had discussions with...
...lost foster brother, the entertaining sailor Richard Dauntless (Francis Crick '03). Angle is ideally cast as the naive, helpless Robin, who becomes even more inept at doing his daily evil deed once his true identity is revealed, although he is creative in his short-lived crime spree, managing to disinherit his unborn son and forge one of his servant's checks. Crick is extremely convincing as the overly emotional, yet big-hearted sailor Dauntless, although occasionally he tends to swallow some of the song lyrics. But what Crick sometimes loses in verbal communication is more than made...
...ordered to rein in his "seditious" son. "I'm crushed if you go on," Nicolae told Eugene by telephone. "They will destroy me, destroy your mother." Grasping for a solution, the artist screamed at his father -- and the eavesdropping police -- "Don't tell me what to do. I disinherit you!" Children do not disinherit parents; this artist is crazy. Or so Mihaesco hoped the Securitate would think. Soon after, his father got his job back. But Nicolae Mihaescu did not understand his son's vehemence. They have not spoken since...