Families wanted a son to bear the family name, to inherit property and to carry out funerary duties.
In fact, you can leave all of the Roth to your children or grandchildren and they will have years or even decades (depending on their ages when they inherit) to deplete it.
Mr Howard, a business consultant, had claimed his father, 76, whose original surname was Lawson, had "forfeited" his right to inherit the castle in 1962 by neglecting to comply with some terms in his great grandfather's will.
If your spouse is otherwise provided for (and agrees to waive his or her right to inherit), maybe you should leave your stash to your kids or even your grandkids instead of your spouse.
Through their faith, Mormons tend to inherit many quintessentially conservative values, above all an attachment to the family.
Nepalese civil law allows a woman to inherit property from her father only if she remains unmarried to the age of 35.
Wenger was fortunate to inherit a solid defense in 1996 and he was smart enough to leave it well alone.
King Abdullah said he did not want his son, Hussein, to inherit a throne where he will be in a similar position to President Assad.
"It leaves a healthy dowry for the BFI to inherit, " agreed Gareth Unwin, who gave "a massive thank you to the UK Film Council" as he accepted the best picture Oscar with his colleagues.
Mr Mitarai was lucky enough to inherit a firm with this kind of leadership, in a sector with high barriers to entry.
Krugman philosophy says that leaving our children to inherit an economy without jobs is a far worse sin than leaving them with a big debt to pay down.
While Apple is set to inherit a bucket of cash from Samsung and HTC, Nokia is one of the few companies to extract a large (though unspecified) amount of money from Apple.
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The legal opinion says England, Wales and Northern Ireland would be most likely to inherit the UK's existing treaty obligations and membership of international bodies - while Scotland would have to begin anew.
If they stand to someday inherit even larger sums, having a chance to observe their financial and management skills can itself be worthwhile.
Do you think she really wanted her feng shui advisor to inherit it all?
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Daniel had never talked to his parents about what he might expect to inherit.
Although President Mubarak denies he wants his son to inherit him, many Egyptians are sceptical.
More likely are gradual draw-downs--with plenty left over for the kids to inherit and continue investing.
Do you plan to keep secret from your children how much they stand to inherit?
His sons both still work at Aldi Nord and seem likely to inherit the fortune.
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Both Mr Serra and Ms Rousseff are now courting Ms Silva, hoping to inherit her vote.
Primogeniture refers to the right of the first-born child to inherit the entire estate.
More quietly, many people wonder how much of a fortune there is to inherit.
The children of the wealthy might work and save less, conscious that they were going to inherit.
He stressed that parliament had already removed the requirement that heterosexual partners must be married to inherit tenancies.
He tells me that, when he was 18, he did not want to inherit the family firm either.
Plus, there's the chance to inherit a fortune and become a billionaire yourself.
We are an aspirational people who want our children to inherit more opportunity than we inherited from our parents.
To make matters worse you were not even in line to inherit anything.
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When Natella demands the child back for the wealth he's to inherit, the women must battle for him in court.
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