R. Chaim Berlin on Gifts to Avoid Halachic Inheritance (30 Cheshvan)

שו"ת נשמת חיים קס"ט 30 Cheshvan 5657 (1896)

The Torah has rules for inheritance which can be relatively easily circumvented, but how explicit can one be about it? R. Chaim Berlin discusses a son who pressured his aging father into giving him a gift that put him ahead of his siblings in inheritance. R. Berlin discusses why and how that could be ok, and why and how it would not.

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