Her Aunts Expect Her To Share Her Inheritance With Them, But She Doesn’t Want To
It always saddens me to see family members argue over estate-related things after a loved one dies. Unfortunately, to some people, dealing with someone’s will is a higher priority than taking the time to grieve them.
One woman is dealing with a lot of stress while her two aunts are trying to convince her to share what she inherited from her late mother.
She’s 25-years-old and recently lost her mother to breast cancer. Everything her mom had, she left to her and her 35-year-old brother.
During the final years of her mom’s life, she’s been living in her apartment. When her mom passed, she left the apartment to her because it was imperative that she would always have a place to live.
Her older brother had no issues with the situation, given that he earns a decent salary and owns his own unit in the same apartment complex.
However, two of her aunts aren’t pleased that she got to keep the apartment. One of them is struggling financially, and the other makes a stable income but not enough to help her sister.
Her aunts think that since she makes enough money to rent a different apartment, she should let the struggling aunt live in the one her mom gave to her, then claimed that it’s what her mother would have wanted.
“I said no, stating that my mother wanted me to have a place of my own,” she explained. “I am currently saving all the money I would have used on rent and intend to buy my own house when I have enough saved.”
Then, they went after the additional money her mother left her.
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“[Mom] had two life insurance policies, both of which went only to my brother and me,” she added.
“She also left us the house and her car. Basically, everything was split between my brother and me, and no one else got anything.”
Her aunts believe it’s unfair they didn’t get anything after her mother died and that they deserve some of the money.
Her brother became so frustrated with their aunts’ aggression that he decided to cut off contact with them. He’s encouraging her to do the same, but she doesn’t want to cut off any family. She’s just unsure of how to reason with her aunts.
“I also feel strongly that if my mother wanted them to get money, she would have left them something,” she said.
“But she didn’t. She chose to leave everything to my brother and me. My aunts are saying that my mother did that because she assumed we would share.”
She feels that she would have known if her mom had planned on giving anything to her aunts before she passed. However, there was no mention of it. So now, instead of coming together to grieve her mother, there is a ton of tension between these family members.
Do you think she should give her aunts any of her inheritance?
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