Annoying parents / siblings and civil code.

Should I get along with my hated parents and siblings, or do I have a good relationship with them? but···

As many of my clients have asked this and I have told them” you don’t have to forcibly get along with those unpleasant parents and siblings.”

If you don’t want to see their faces, you don’t have to meet for a lifetime, I think so.

But…. Clients looks reluctant to make a distance with them. Why…?

Looking at future, they want to maintain some relation with parents and siblings. In future, when the succession happens, my clients are afraid of being outside of the succession process.

“If you want to have a certain amount of inheritance for yourself, you have to get along with your parents and siblings, that is a problem and have my clients tired.

Let me tell you the system in Japan. Those who leave the world can voluntarily decide what to do with their property in a will. If they wrote a will to give everything to his mistress and give nothing to his wife or child, do that wife or child have no right to claim anything? No, it’s not fair. Japanese civil code set out a system. The civil law stipulates this as a reserve, certain amount can be claimed even if one is excluded from inheritance.

Thus if you have been suffering from the relation with parents or siblings, you can stay away from them while securing your portion to be inherited. Before spending time on worrying, please change the directions to look at and talk with lawyers to double check the system.