Sharon said that she needed to disown one of her two children. The son with whose family she now lived should be the sole beneficiary of her estate on her death. The other child, she explained, though the child had helped her in the past as she aged, was now distant and after a small argument a year ago, they no longer spoke. She needed to cut the child with whom she no longer spoke out of the inheritance. After we discussed the emotional firestorm that the favored son would likely endure upon her death – the disinherited child would “take it out on him” and may even pursue litigation, Sharon was uncertain how to proceed. I proposed pairing a no contest provision with an amount to leave to the disfavored child sufficient to serve as a deterrent to bad behavior. This is the plan which I drafted for Sharon. It accomplished what truly mattered to Sharon, showing her appreciation to the son who was caring for her without creating a difficult situation which would interfere with his future relationship with his sibling.