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So in most states, restrictions on private inheritances are limited to the lifetime of living beneficiaries plus 21 years (conditions on bequests to charities can often last longer).
The answer--even if you have an egalitarian impulse to pour resources into the dumb kid--is to send the smart kid to college and make it up to the dumb kid through bequests (or other cash gifts).
An exception might be poor families, where bequests are insubstantial.
But bequests aren't the only economic transactions within families.
So, the general rule is that if people wanted to redistribute among offspring, they'd do it through bequests.