Wills and half siblings query

lazeedaisy

Hi,
Not sure if anyone can advise me, hoping I can get guidance as the internet send to have fallen short for me,

I'm currently drawing up my will, my parents separated after 50 years a couple of years ago, I have 4 siblings, my father has since had 2 children, he's in his seventies, and the five of us are all around the 48 - 52 age group. My sister lives in USA and recently asked me if she had to add the new HALF siblings to her will, and it got me thinking too,

I can't find anything about it, and none of us have really spoken to him since he broke my mum's heart.

Do we have to include these two children on our wills, and if we don't can they dispute it when we die?

Just forward planning, and need to be informed,

Any advice would be great

nuac

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Marcusm

No siblings have any right to inherit nor does any person have any obligation to provide for them (in a will or however).

coylemj

Siblings, half-siblings, uncles, aunts, cousins and beyond have no entitlement to a cent from your estate. If you have adult children and you provided for all of them more or less equally when they were growing up i.e. you didn't favour one or more at the expense of others, they can also be omitted as beneficiaries.

lazeedaisy

Thanks for the replies, seemingly it's different in the states, and we wanted to make sure we have every angle covered

coylemj

lazeedaisy wrote: »

Thanks for the replies, seemingly it's different in the states, and we wanted to make sure we have every angle covered

You're obliged to leave your brother money in your will in the US? How much? It has to vary by state as probate and wills wouldn't be something that the US Congress gets involved with.

What if you have seven brothers and sisters you haven't been in contact with for years and you want to leave your money to the neighbours who looked after you in your old age??

Thoie

Completely hypothetical, as I don't have any half siblings, but if my parents were dead, and I was in the OP's situation (4 siblings, 2 half siblings), what's the situation if I died intestate, with no spouse/kids of my own? Does the estate get split 4 ways or 6?

Indricotherium

Thoie wrote: »

Completely hypothetical, as I don't have any half siblings, but if my parents were dead, and I was in the OP's situation (4 siblings, 2 half siblings), what's the situation if I died intestate, with no spouse/kids of my own? Does the estate get split 4 ways or 6?

Or 5?? 1+1+1+1+.5+.5!!!

Marcusm

Thoie wrote: »

Completely hypothetical, as I don't have any half siblings, but if my parents were dead, and I was in the OP's situation (4 siblings, 2 half siblings), what's the situation if I died intestate, with no spouse/kids of my own? Does the estate get split 4 ways or 6?

Sectio 72 Succession Act 1965; half-blood relations to be treated the same as whole blood, I.e. in an intestacy, half-siblings treated the same as full siblings.

redbel05

Thoie wrote: »

Completely hypothetical, as I don't have any half siblings, but if my parents were dead, and I was in the OP's situation (4 siblings, 2 half siblings), what's the situation if I died intestate, with no spouse/kids of my own? Does the estate get split 4 ways or 6?

Section 72 of Succession Act 1965 states that relatives of the half-blood will be treated as succeeding as relatives of the whole blood.

Edit: sorry, just saw Marcusm's post