By Stacks / The Law firm
The popular long-running 1970s TV comedy The Brady
Bunch was the first to depict a blended family of a happily
married couple, each with three kids of their own from a previous
marriage.
Such families were relatively rare in those days, but nowadays
blended families of all types are common – often with
even more complex origins such as children from several different
previous partners.
As we now tend to live longer, we are also seeing more people
aged in their 70s and 80s remarry. Their children are adults, and
they may have previous spouses or partners still alive.
All of this can make issues of inheritance, wills and estate
planning much more complicated and challenging to satisfy those
involved. More and more cases of bitterly disputed wills and
inheritances are appearing before court.
