Her Parents Expect Her To Become Her Disabled Older Sister’s Legal Guardian, But After She Asked Them To Give Her Their Entire Estate To Help Cover Her Sister’s Expenses, They Accused Her Of Being Greedy
Have you ever been asked to become someone’s guardian if their parents could not take care of them for any reason?
A young woman is trying to reason with her parents after being told for years that she would be first in line to become her older sister’s legal guardian if their parents were to pass away unexpectedly.
She’s 23-years-old and has a 33-year-old sister who is disabled and living in a group home.
“The government pays for a good portion of the cost but not all,” she explained. “My parents have made sure that they have accessed every resource available for her to make sure she has as good a life as she can.”
Although she’s only 23, she’s been told all her life by her parents that she would become her older sister’s guardian if something happened to them.
She loves her sister, but that’s a lot of pressure for someone so young. She plans on traveling and seeing the world.
It’s also odd because she has two older brothers who are both married and successful in their careers. Deep down, she believes that her brothers would be a better choice than her.
Last weekend, while visiting with her parents, she decided to talk to them again about the situation. She figured it would be a good time considering that both parents have recently had health scares in the last few years.
After thinking things over for a while, she came up with three different plans to offer to her parents.
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One would be to have her, and both of her brothers appointed guardianship of their sister so that they could split the responsibilities evenly.
Another would be to leave their entire estate to their sister and have a trustee manage the funds for her.
She also proposed that if she did become her sister’s sole guardian, she should also get her parent’s entire estate. She notes that her parents aren’t extremely wealthy.
“Their estate will mostly consist of their house and the insurance policies they took out when they realized the long-term costs of care for my sister,” she explained.
Her parents were not happy with that option and told her she was being greedy. That’s when she told them she could be taken out of their will entirely and would not take any part in having guardianship over her sister.
This really upset her parents. Her dad was furious, and her mom cried as she left. Later, she got a call from her brothers to tell her she was in the wrong for suggesting something like that to her parents.
“I asked both of them if they wanted 100% responsibility for our sister in return for the entire estate,” she added. “I volunteered to sign away everything to them. Neither one took me up on the offer.”
Do you think her ideas for the future were that unreasonable?
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