In short, the answer is yes. However, that does not mean that your children will necessarily accept your decision or that there is nothing, as a matter of law, that they can do to challenge your Will after your death.

In the now widely publicised case of Ilott v Mitson, a daughter who was estranged from her mother for 26 years was awarded an inheritance from her mother’s estate by the Supreme Court following a decade of litigation. During the early days of that case, ...