"disputed inheritance" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation in which there is a disagreement or legal dispute over who should inherit a deceased person's assets. This phrase can be used in various contexts, including legal documents, news articles, or conversations about a will or estate. Example: The family has been torn apart by the disputed inheritance left by their late grandfather. Multiple cousins have come forward claiming to be the rightful heirs, and the case is now in court.
The Surrey police said that in arresting the older Mr. Hilli they had acted at the request of the French police, who had questions about Mr. Hilli's whereabouts at the time of the killing and the origins of the disputed inheritance.
The confraternity collected legal papers that established the ownership of real estate, set forth the terms of mortgages, and papers that recorded all the vicissitudes that befell real property by reason of death, disputed inheritance, transfer by sale, bankruptcy, suits for the recovery of debt, and so forth.
When Margaret died, Edward was invited by the Scottish magnates to resolve the disputed inheritance.
Among other Gothic delights, there's a crumbling old mansion, a disputed inheritance, an orphaned heroine and a grim housekeeper whose signature supper dish is gristle stew.
It had the makings of a Shakespearean tragedy: feuding family members, a struggle for money and power, a disputed inheritance, and sullied reputations.
Dunn died in 1885, leaving behind a lucrative but disputed inheritance.
This was not the case in England, where the best a noble could do was to identify what Professor Eleanor Searle has termed a pool of legitimate heirs, leaving them to challenge and dispute the inheritance after his death.
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Following Frederick's death (1428) the Wettins disputed the division of the inheritance; in 1485 Albert and Ernest, the sons of Frederick II (d. 1464), by the Treaty of Leipzig, arranged what came to be a permanent division between the Albertine (eastern) and Ernestine (western) Saxon lands.
The capital city flourished, trading with Trieste, Venice, and Hungary; nevertheless, economic decline attended the numerous disputes over inheritance within the Habsburg family.
