It may seem rather obvious, but an article in Money Magazine cites research that shows that parents whose children call and visit them often tend to leave those children a larger share of the parents' assets.
While I don't disagree with this conclusion, my experience working with clients is that unless a child is significantly estranged from the parents, in most cases the parents will elect to leave equal shares for all the children. I do encourage parents to think long and hard about distributions among the children, and to not reflexively leave equal shares without taking all the facts and circumstances into account.
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