Joint Accounts

Can I Ask to Be Included in My Partner’s Will?

We’ve been together for 20 years, but he wants to leave everything to his adult children

Kristin Wong
Forge
Published in
4 min readSep 3, 2019

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An illustration of a couple facing each other against a colorful collage of wills, wedding rings, a car, a home and children.
Illustration: Laurie Rollitt

Dear Joint Accounts,

My partner and I have been together for 20 years. We both have adult children from previous marriages. The problem is, he won’t add me to his…

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Kristin Wong
Forge
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Kristin Wong has written for the New York Times, The Cut, Catapult, The Atlantic and ELLE.