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Whether to accept inheritance that climate change makes worthless

My mother-in-law wants to leave us her house but it's in a flood zone and I don't know if accepting it is grateful or stupid.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Traditional forms of intergenerational wealth transfer become complicated when environmental change makes inherited assets liabilities.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Intergenerational justice — what we owe the future?”

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