The trustee can be charged with managing the inheritance prudently for the children's benefit. Another option would be for your will to require the executor to establish and manage a trust, which would administer the inheritance on the children's behalf. My sister and I are both adults. She has been suffering emotional problems for some time and was recently checked into a psychiatric hospital. Since then, we have heard nothing.
Patient confidentiality is an important part of medical and psychiatric treatment.
If patients are concerned that information about them may be revealed to others, they may not be open in their description of their condition. This can mean they do not receive proper treatment. But getting it right is often not easy. If she had, the tragedy may have been averted. Clearly, a balance must be struck.