] However the implication of your questions is that Darcy is essentially willing to break Georgiana and allow her and Wickham to live in poverty. I would think it more likely that appearances would be kept up and Georgiana would get her money. Either way it is a bad situation.

...that Darcy/Fitzwilliam would have left her in poverty. Wickham obviously believed that no matter what Darcy's feelings about Wickham, the money would still be there. I was just curious if his certainty came from a legal reason or more from his conviction that Darcy wouldn't abandon his sister.