Considers the appropriate judicial approach to events after the death of the testator when a claim is made for increased provision on the basis that, under section 117 of the Irish Succession Act 1965, the testator has failed in his or her moral duty to the applicant child. (An approach consistent with the argument of this 1995 article was later taken by the Irish Supreme Court in Re LB; EB v SS [1998] 2 ILRM 141).