(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.
