His Children Are Furious With Him For Considering Giving His Deceased Son’s $3 Million Dollar Estate To His Fiancée, And For Allowing Her To Continue Living In His $1 Million Dollar Apartment
In the country where this 69-year-old man lives, only blood relatives and married partners of the deceased are able to legally inherit anything.
According to the laws, “common law partners, long-term partners, and fiancés/fiancées” are not included in this.
A year ago, one of his four children, his oldest son, James, 48, tragically died in a horrific accident.
“He was child-free, and he lived with his long-term girlfriend, Sarah, 39, of 15 years. He is a very successful business owner. He proposed to Sarah a few weeks before his passing. They were supposed to have been married this summer. If they were married, Sarah would have inherited everything since he has no children, but since there was no paper, I inherited his whole estate,” he said.
James’ estate is worth over $3 million.
Understandably, the past year has been incredibly difficult for his family and Sarah as they’ve been grieving this terrible loss. He and Sarah visit James’ grave every morning together, and Sarah brings breakfast along so that they can eat together.
Despite seeing her every day, he still hasn’t brought up the topic of James’ estate.
“I got to know this amazing woman, and I got what my son saw in her. They were madly in love with each other,” he shared.
James and Sarah had lived together in James’ apartment before he passed away. Since he died, Sarah has continued living in the apartment.
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Last Saturday, his children came over to his house for dinner. During the visit, his second oldest son asked him when he was going to tell Sarah that she needed to move out of James’ apartment.
“Move out? Yes, the apartment is mine now, and it’s worth around $1 million. I told my children that they must have misunderstood this whole thing,” he explained.
Even though he knows that legally he inherited James’ estate, in his mind, James’ estate belongs to Sarah. Also, even though James and Sarah weren’t yet considered married by law, she was essentially James’ wife, in his opinion, especially considering the fact that they’d been together for 15 years.
When he told his children this, they were all furious with him. None of them have a lot of money, and they all have children of their own to support. He knows that since the estate is legally his, this would mean that after he passes away, the estate would then be passed down to his children. However, this hasn’t changed his perspective on allowing Sarah to continue living in James’ apartment.
James was financially successful while he was in a relationship with Sarah, and James himself had even said that he didn’t think he’d be where he was in life if it wasn’t for her.
He truly believes that James’ and Sarah’s love was, in his words, “more beautiful than any married couple I’ve ever met.”
Now, he is considering giving James’ estate to Sarah. He knows that James could have never predicted his accident, and like so many people, James probably thought he had more time. So, he wants to make sure he’s able to have it in writing that Sarah can keep living in James’ estate before his own health declines one day.
Do you think he’s doing the right thing in giving Sarah James’ estate?
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