In many estates, the actual assets are not held in a bank account but are tied up in a house or a flat. It is precisely this that regularly leads to disputes over the statutory share. Those who have been disinherited often hope to receive a share of the property, only to discover that they are actually entitled to something quite different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is not only those expressly excluded by a will who are disinherited. Anyone who is simply not named in the will, even though they would have become a statutory heir as a child or spouse, is also disinherited. If the parents bequeath the house solely to one sibling, the other children are excluded from the line of succession and are entitled to their statutory share. Even those who have been included in the will but receive less than their statutory share may claim the difference. What else exclusion from the line of succession entails is explained in the article on the subject, What rights remain following disinheritance?<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n