Her Stepmom’s Lying About Her Late Dad’s Will, So She Wants To Take What’s Hers To Inherit

Quite sadly, this 29-year-old woman recently lost her dad to a terminal brain tumor. Back when her dad received the grim diagnosis, doctors estimated he had six months to a year to live.
Every day afterward, she says they lost a piece of her dad, and they grieved his death before he passed away.
Her dad lived in another country with her stepmom, Jenny, and her two teen sisters. Her 27-year-old brother flew out to see their dad as much as possible, and she worked overtime at her job to get the money together to pay for a wedding her dad could attend while he was still relatively well.
Four weeks before her wedding, her dad was told he could no longer fly, so her fiancé offered to drive thousands of miles to go get her dad, but he was too sick to come.
Her 27-year-old brother filmed her wedding, and she flew out to see her dad with a tape to show him.
“We flew out for his funeral and many times after to see Jenny and our sisters,” she explained. “We’d never got on with Jenny, but his cancer brought us together to realize what was important (or so I thought).”
Jenny entered their lives when she was 10, and Jenny was never nice. Jenny was outright mean to her brother and never missed the ability to trash their mom.
She defended her brother, but her dad stayed out of it since he never liked to get into arguments. After she was able to leave home, she still couldn’t bring herself to like Jenny.
When she met her husband and brought him to visit her dad and Jenny, Jenny spent two hours informing her husband of how terrible she was.

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She was able to put all of that aside and be there for Jenny after her dad’s passing. But then, not too long ago, she was surprised when a company reached out to her about her dad’s will.
Jenny had insisted her dad did not have a will, and she never challenged Jenny since she figured she knew best as she was married to him.
She asked Jenny for a copy of her dad’s will and was ignored. Then her brother called her up, upset and puzzled.
He also had reached out to Jenny about the will, and as soon as he did, Jenny freaked out on him and screamed that he can’t make a claim for the will since it will ruin their family and she will need to hurry up and find a job.
“Jenny didn’t work, understandably, when Dad was ill, but he died over a year ago, and she hasn’t worked since,” she said.
“Our sisters are independent; they cook, walk to school, and have a key. She could work if she wanted to and did full-time before Dad was ill.”
“Jenny messages calling us greedy. Say how traumatic Dad’s illness was for her and our sisters (as if it wasn’t for us) and that if we took the money we’re stealing…as “adult children,” it’s odd to think we’re entitled to anything from Dad. I nearly cry when I see her message.”
Her brother mentioned it all seemed strange and he suspects Jenny is hiding their inheritance from them.
They both have still not seen a copy of the will, so they don’t know if they have anything to inherit at all.
“If Jenny had come to us and asked for our inheritance if she was struggling, we would have helped,” she added.
Since Jenny is saying things like there is no will and they’re not in it, that makes her and her brother want to know what Jenny is hiding.
She does know that where her dad passed away, there is a rule that all of his children are entitled legally to share his estate, regardless of the will.
She’s left wondering if it’s wrong of her and her brother to want to take what’s theirs to inherit.
What do you think?
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