{"id":1282,"date":"2012-12-17T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/17\/was-it-a-workaround"},"modified":"2012-12-17T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T11:23:00","slug":"was-it-a-workaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/17\/was-it-a-workaround\/","title":{"rendered":"Was It A Workaround?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his early 19th century will, a Maryland ancestor appears to disinherit a daughter when he leaves everything to her two children and appoints a guardian for them.<\/p>\n

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The man writing the will might have not so much been disinheriting the daughter as he was avoiding a son-in-law. In the very early 1800s, when this will was written, a man would be able to exercise control over real property that his wife inherited. By leaving the real estate to his daughter’s children, and appointing a guardian, the testator was providing for the children while circumventing the son-in-law.<\/div>\n
And you thought that only people today who had to use creative ways to get around things.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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