Talk:Inheritance

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Systematic bias

As is usually the case here on the English 'pedia, more information is needed on this topic with respect to societies outside of the Euro-feudalistic and Anglo-American legal traditions. Ellsworth 00:52, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

How much?

I am wondering if anyone knows how much a person can inherit before they have to pay taxes?

Who inherits?

This article is missing basic facts. Who gets to inherit? Spouse? Children? How does making a will affect things? SGJ 23:24, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Debt

Can someone who knows more about this topic add info about the passing on of debt? Like, what happens if you have some deadbeat parent who you don't even speak to that racks up a huge credit debt and then croaks? Can you refuse to accept this "inheritance"? Obviously this varies from country to country and over history, but its something I would like to know more about. Seyon 00:45, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I can't speak for all cultures, but generally speaking, you shouldn't expect a negative inheritance. When a person dies, their assets are used to pay off any debts the individual had (whoever's administering the estate would make the decisions about which assets to sell to accomplish this). Anything left over then goes to the heir(s). If their aren't enough assets to cover the debts of the estate, the heirs simply get nothing. The debts become uncollectable to the collectors. --Q Canuck 01:21, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced template

As far as I can see, this article does not cite any sources for the information. If this situation does not improve, I intend to propose the article for deletion. --Gerry Ashton 02:20, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There's no point in deleting such an obviously necessary article. If you care to take a look around you'll see much of Wikipedia is unreferenced. Just improve the article or be happy with the tags and assessment. Richard001 02:28, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Business inheritance?

In terms of business, does ineritance also play a role in the ownership of a company, such as Marathon Oil and Ewing Oil? Angie Y. 21:02, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]