# Will with restrictive conditions - can they be enforced? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 14, 2022, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-with-restrictive-conditions-can-they-be-enforced/966166 "2022-06-14T14:48:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-with-restrictive-conditions-can-they-be-enforced/966166/17 "2022-06-14T22:06:12Z")
A few years ago, I asked a similar question: > [@In your Last Will and Testament, how much can you screw with your heirs?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-last-will-and-testament-how-much-can-you-screw-with-your-heirs/518671): > > A common trope in TV and movies is an inheritance with strings attached. In order to collect the money, the heir must first get married, or finish college, or scatter the decedent’s ashes in Kathmandu, or something. In the Mystery genre: The heirs are given clues to a hidden treasure. The first one to solve the puzzle, gets to keep the money. In the Horror genre: The heirs get a fabulous inheritance . . . if they can survive the perils of the spooky old house. In the Comedy genre: Collectin… The winner of the thread was The Great Stork Derby. > **[Great Stork Derby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stork_Derby)** > > The Great Stork Derby was a contest held from 1926 to 1936. Female residents of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, competed to produce the most babies in order to qualify for an unusual bequest in a will. > The race was the product of a scheme by Charles Vance Millar (1853–1926), a Toronto lawyer, financier, and practical joker, who bequeathed the residue of his significant estate to the woman in Toronto who could produce the most children in the decade following his death. > It is one of many unusual beq... --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-with-restrictive-conditions-can-they-be-enforced/966166)._