Most seniors in Beijing exclude in-laws from wills  

中華遺囑庫登記7000份遺囑 多不給兒媳女婿遺產(chǎn)

去年3月，“中華遺囑庫”在京啟動，60歲以上的老人可免費辦理遺囑登記、遺囑保管和遺囑傳遞。目前，中華遺囑庫已成功辦理近7000份遺囑登記，近4萬老人已預(yù)約。昨天，新京報記者了解到，隨著登記遺囑的5名老人過世，他們生前立下的5份遺囑已生效執(zhí)行，而在遺囑“揭曉”前，這5名老人的子女對遺囑內(nèi)容均不知情。[查看全文]

(ECNS) -- Nearly 7,000 elderly citizens in Beijing have registered their last wills and testaments at a welfare center since last March, and nearly all of them excluded their daughters- and sons-in-law from any inheritance, the Beijing News said.

The China Will Register Center said on Sunday that it had registered nearly 7,000 legal documents for senior citizens, and over 38,000 had made appointments since it was launched last March.

The center offers free services to seniors aged over 60 for will consultation, registration and safekeeping.

The center said that almost all testators chose only their biological children to inherit their legacies.

Chen Kai, the center's director, said testators leave their last wills in the absence of relatives who might influence them, and that the whole process is videotaped and kept as a record.

The center disclosed the wills of five deceased seniors to their relatives, and some children doubted that the testaments had come from their parents' own free will. Chen said, "The videos explained everything."

Chen said the center may introduce ceremonies in the future for children to memorialize their parents.