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Are the following sentences correct?

1) There is none other than you to whom I can leave this.

2) There is none other to whom I can leave this than you.

3) There is none to whom I can leave this other than you.

Thank you for your help!

[CP]

Although you can use "none" in sentences like these, "no one" is more commonly used, because the reference is to people.

Your sentences 1 and 3 are both acceptable, but not the most natural sounding, and again, "no one" is more likely than "none" there. Someone writing a proper letter to his / her child, perhaps, would word it that way, telling the child that he / she is the only person who would inherit the unnamed thing.

In spoken language, you might say, "There's no one else I can leave this to," or "You are the only one I could leave this to."
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