How common is it for siblings to fight over their parents' inheritance money? What is the best way to handle this type of situation?
10.06.2025 02:07
Years later I’m still using these items and think of my parents when I do.
My stepmother? She sold the house pretty quickly and moved into a retirement manufactured home community in the same area…her daughter lived nearby. It was my custom to send her a bouquet of flowers on her birthday every year…..that year she refused them….cut off all contact with me. I believe she is no longer among the living after all these years.
A short time after his funeral (which my son and I attended) I was contacted by the attorney handling my Dad's estate. He asked for a list of the items I wanted from the house based on my Dad's will. Apparently many of the items on my list did not exist per my stepmother.
My Dad had given me a copy of his will before he began cancer treatments. My stepmother also had a copy…she had been married to my Dad for about 4 years when he became ill. I was to receive $XXX amount cash and my parents’ furniture, china, silverware…basically the furnishings/items I grew up with. It wasn't so much any value of these items but the memories they represented. His wife was to receive the house which was free and clear (no mortgage) plus $XXXXX cash.
It wasn't me and my siblings fighting over my Dad's inheritance but my stepmother and I !!
I should point out my Dad's only primary relatives were just my stepmother and I. My parents had only produced one child (me) and they had been married 42 years (corrected) when my Mom died. My Dad married my stepmother 3 years later. He’d admitted he was lonely which I totally understood. I had moved away for my job.
Only a month after I got home, I got the phone call I didn't want to answer. My Dad was no longer in pain or suffering from cancer.
PS - I was my parents only child. Once both my parents were deceased it was very lonely. Therefore, my husband and I have three sons to irritate, tolerate or love each other after we are gone. There will be open discussion to determine who gets what. Though boys are not usually as interested these items as females are…oh to be a fly on the wall…
My Dad's lawyer presented her with the time/date stamped photos of the items on my list and in my Dad's will. A few weeks later a moving truck delivered my parents furniture and other memory filled items.
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Have you ever had a funny feeling to do something kinda odd? Well, I followed that feeling when I last visited him and took photos of the outside and inside of my Dad's house…I had grown up there through high school and college. I just had a funny feeling my next trip back would be for his funeral and not a visit…the cancer was spreading. I also took photos of the items mentioned in his will.