Should parents whose adult children are not following God cut those children out of their wills? This was a question that Christian financial guru Dave Ramsey addressed recently on “The Dave Ramsey Show.”
“We want to make sure she’s living according to the Bible and doing the things that we expect her to, and my wife says that if she’s not there doing that yet when we should pass…we shouldn’t give her the inheritance,” said a man who called into the show, according to a clip posted Nov. 3.
The father explained that he and his wife were in the process of filling out inheritance paperwork and that they have two boys under the age of two and a daughter, from his previous marriage, who is 24.
“And I’m like, well, maybe we should give her a chance to get there,” said the father, “and then she could…have part of the inheritance.”
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Dave Ramsey is a Christian personal finance expert who founded Ramsey Solutions, is known for his Financial Peace University course, and has authored a number of books, including “The Total Money Makeover.” Ramsey is also known for hosting “The Dave Ramsey Show,” where people call in for financial advice. Ramsey’s website says that, thanks to the experts Ramsey has added as cohosts, the show now “covers every spoke of life from career to mental health to family and relationships.”
The man who called Ramsey said he had heard Ramsey “put stipulations” and say that, when it comes to making wills, “[children] have to live a certain way and be a certain way.”
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“We’re God-fearing Christians,” said the caller, explaining that he and his wife disagree about what to do about his daughter, “so we need a tiebreaker. We need some wisdom on this.” The man added that their decision about the daughter would also apply to “our boys, so we’re just torn on how we should handle that.”
“You have the information correct; you have the spirit wrong behind what we did,” Ramsey told the man. “What we did was not a punishment thing. It was not a carrot or a stick thing.”
