Basic Trope: A character changes the content of a deceased's will in order to gain more inheritance.
- Straight: Just before billionaire Albert Von Trope dies, his disinherited son Robert, steals his father's will and replaces it with a fake one where he is reinstated as a legatee.
- Exaggerated: Robert writes a fake will in which he inherits every single penny his father owns, leaving the other legitimate devisees in the dust. He does the same for his other deceased relatives, making it so that he's the sole heir to all of their wills.
- Downplayed: Robert rewrites the numbers stipulated on the will so that he receives 10% more than what he's actually meant to inherit.
- Justified:
- Robert is an Idle Rich and will not survive without his portion of inheritance. Besides he is his father's son, and he feels that he has a rightful claim to Albert's wealth.
- Alternatively, Robert is extremely poor and forging the will is the only way that he can get the money he needs to buy important lifesaving medicine.
- Subverted: The will that Robert has isn't forged, it's just a newer version that his father wrote just before he dies to supercede the old one.
- Double Subverted: Albert did write a new will, but it's not the one that Robert has. The new will is kept by the family's attorney, and Robert's will is fake after all.
- Parodied: Robert writes his falsified contents on a loose-leaf paper using a purple-coloured sharpie. Somehow no one notices.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: There is no will, forged or otherwise.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "That doesn't sound like something Uncle Albert would write. Something's fishy here..."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: On his deathbed, Albert verbally announces how he's distributing his wealth and explicitly claims that he has no written will, because he knows that someone might try some funny business to get their hands on extra cash.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Albert should have called a lawyer to draw up his will. That way, it won't be so easy for people to write a fake one."
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