[recycled sixtie]

This is a tough one. If your stepdaughter has been working in addition to school then paying for her tuition fees is a consideration. However if she has an attitude such that the inheritance is expected to be used for her tuition loan then I would say no.

With our daughter who now lives with her boyfriend we have paid for her tuition from day one except now she is in her Masters/Phd program, the fees are a lot less.She gets scholarship money too. My tuition fee bank has nearly run out for her. We have done everything for her when she lived in her house and she was expected to study hard and she started working at part time jobs since she was 16.

So I would take a good hard look at your daughter's attitude to money source. Again if you are expected to hand over $$$ for tuition I would say forget it. She has to learn that $$$$ have to be worked for and a loan has to be paid off by working and not handouts. I can justify my daugher receiving tuition fees from us because she has worked darn hard to get good marks plus working outside of school.