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That sounds absolutely terrible and I’m sorry you are going through it.
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Thank you, Amanda.
Yes.
My father and I were very close. We talked to each other on the phone once a week and sent mail to each other on a regular basis. He used to call me sometimes instead of me calling the house phone which he had never done before my sister passed.
We never spoke about his will. I expected my brother to inherit everything. You could have knocked me over with a feather when I found out my brother and I inherited in equal shares.
My brother pretended with me that he had inherited everything after our father passed.
He even told me that my father's 1985 will was our father's and mother's will. I told him it was not our mother's will. I suggested he read it. He told me he didn't need to read anything. I then told him he could ask our cousin, the executer, if he didn't believe me. He didn't reply to this parting shot because there was nothing he could say.
My cousin hasn't always been forthcoming, either. She had spent almost two years pressuring my father to sign a new draft will leaving everything to my brother to no avail.
It would be an understatement to say families can become primal and vicious when it comes to survivorship and inheritance.
I've observed this once in my family and now experienced it twice.
I'm truly humbled my father thought of me and very grateful.
My brother can pound sand. My problem with him started when I expected to get nothing and he tried to have my sister disinherited.
Probate is a fresh kind of hell but I'm glad it exists to keep everyone honest.
I'm sorry for the long post but my father died last October marking a year since his passing and a year of dealing with my grief, my brother, my cousin, and the probate process.
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Andy, I feel this way. Lol.
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