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# Heirs and shares
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The **HEIRS** tab is where you define who receives your bitcoin.
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*Two heirs configured, with their shares.*
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## Adding an heir
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*Name, destination address, and share.*
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| Field | Meaning |
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| **Name** | A label for the heir, with any details you find useful. Local only — it is never published on-chain. |
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| **Address** | The Bitcoin address that will receive the inheritance. |
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| **Amount** | The share, expressed either as a **percentage** of the wallet or as a **fixed amount**. |
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You can add many heirs — ten or more.
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!!! warning "Check the address twice"
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The inheritance is sent to exactly the address you type, potentially years from now, with nobody available to correct a mistake. Prefer copy-paste over typing, and ask your heir for a fresh address from a wallet they actually control.
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## The wallet is always emptied to 100%
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The plugin makes sure that **all** the value in the wallet reaches the heirs — never a leftover balance stuck behind.
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| You set | The plugin sends |
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| Wallet of 3 BTC: 1 BTC to Jonny, 10% to Andrea | 1 BTC to Jonny, **all the rest** (2 BTC) to Andrea |
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| 5% to Jonny, 80% to Andrea | Recalculated proportionally: **5.9%** to Jonny, **94.1%** to Andrea |
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| Wallet of 10 BTC: exactly 4 BTC to Jonny, exactly 2 BTC to Andrea | The remaining 4 BTC are redistributed — to keep the amounts exact, add a **third heir** (for example an address of your own) for those 4 BTC |
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The rule to remember: **if your shares don't add up to 100%, the plugin scales them until they do.** If you want a specific portion to go somewhere else, name that destination explicitly as an additional heir.
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!!! tip "Sending part of the wallet to yourself"
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Adding one of your own addresses as an heir is a legitimate pattern. It is how you keep amounts exact, and it also improves the privacy of the transaction, since the destinations become harder to interpret.
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## One delivery date per wallet
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In the current version the delivery date is **unique per wallet**. If you need different dates for different heirs — for example two children reaching 18 in different years — prepare **one wallet per date**. Electrum makes creating and managing multiple wallets straightforward.
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!!! info "Planned for BAL 2.0"
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Staggered inheritance — distributing gradually over time, for example 10% per year — is in development for version 2 of the protocol.
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