Chip Chick
He had spent all of Claire’s life assuming she would be the one to get Kate’s heirloom, and that is what Kate would have intended to do with the heirloom if she was still alive.
“My wife counters that this belongs to our family now and we should give it to our eldest daughter on her 18th birthday, and therefore this should be Sarah,” he said.
“I told her that while I consider Sarah to be my daughter but she’s not Kate’s daughter, this belongs to Kate and should go to Kate’s daughter.”
“My wife said Claire is her daughter, not anyone else’s and wife accused me of playing favorites and told me that if I truly consider Sarah to be my daughter then I’ll do the right thing for her or that I haven’t really accepted Sarah as a real daughter yet.”
He decided to approach his 25-year-old son (whom he also had with Kate) to ask him how he feels about the heirloom going to Sarah instead of Claire.
His son was visibly upset and promised to leave Sarah’s birthday party early if he was going to give her Kate’s family heirloom.
His son also insisted that other members of Kate’s family would leave too and that there would be “severe consequences.”
His son feels very strongly that he is not allowed to just give something that meant so much to Kate away to someone who is not related to Kate.
His son thinks Claire is the only person alive who has any right to Kate’s family heirloom, and he can’t believe it’s even up for discussion.
“My wife thinks my son is overreacting and it’s only because due to his age and moving out he’s never bonded with Sarah like Claire and I have, so he doesn’t consider Sarah to be his real sister, otherwise he’d be happy for her,” he continued.
“My wife thinks Claire will be happy about this since she considers Sarah to be her big sister and it will bring the girls even closer together because Sarah will happily share it with Claire and they’ll both have it.”
