{"id":807381,"date":"2026-03-06T07:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/807381\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T07:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:21:16","slug":"the-pros-and-cons-of-giving-your-children-their-inheritance-while-youre-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/807381\/","title":{"rendered":"The pros and cons of giving your children their inheritance while you\u2019re still alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Can\u2019t decide on the \u2018right\u2019 time? Here\u2019s what you need to consider\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"If you don\u2019t want your children to have to wait until you\u2019re gone, what is the case for early inheritance? Photo: Getty.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dd1b5f4e-7146-4862-97b0-2efa7fc9198c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">If you don\u2019t want your children to have to wait until you\u2019re gone, what is the case for early inheritance? Photo: Getty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A financial adviser I know has a tip for retired couples who ask for advice on what to do with their pension lump sum, especially if they\u2019re nervous about spending it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">His recommendation: \u201cIf you don\u2019t fly first class, your son-in-law will.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can\u2019t decide on the \u2018right\u2019 time? Here\u2019s what you need to consider If you don\u2019t want your children&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3093],"tags":[233453,113139,112091,3427,51,233452,474,617,233454,2499,29031,220417,1200,16,15],"class_list":["post-807381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-allied-irish-banks","tag-an-post","tag-bank-of-ireland","tag-banking","tag-business","tag-farming-tax","tag-finance","tag-pensions","tag-permanent-tsb","tag-personal-finance","tag-revenue-commissioners","tag-sinead-ryan","tag-tax","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116181026946317476","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}