Scammed by siblings
I didn't know exactly where to put this one... it's not really lover's lane, but it didn't fit anywhere else.
It's terrible when you lose your parents and you are grieving, but it's even worse when siblings take advantage of the death to claim more of the estate as theirs than the parents would have wanted!
This happened to my mother when her mom passed away, and I've had friends run into the same problem.
When my grandmother died, my aunt went through the house before her brother and sisters came over and boxed up a bunch of stuff she wanted for herself. She felt she had more right to it because she was the youngest and had lived with my grandmother most recently. The worst part was, she moved several times after that and got rid of a bunch of the family heirlooms in one move or another because she couldn't move them!
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Thats awfull I hope this never happens to my family!
Surely the daughter knew what she was doing was morally wrong!
Everything should be dealt with via a solicitor then hopefully things will run smoothly!
I'm so glad that my sisters are kind people who would never do a thing like that. Its just awful that - especially when a family member dies - some people can only pay attention to their greed. You hear horror stories about this stuff all the time. I just think it is really, really sad.
That is just horrible to do to a family member. I know my husbands Mother and her brother have not talked in over fifteen years because of this same thing. When their mother passed away my Mother in laws brother went through the house and took a ton of stuff and she has never seen it to this day. He says he didn't but we have actually seen some of the stuff in his house.
This happened when my step-grandmother died. All of her kids started rushing in to claim whatever they could to the point where they can barely talk anymore because they all think so much less of one another. Luckily my stepmother didn't partake in this and eventually just withdrew from the entire process with a few 'worthless' items that only had emotional value.
It's really a despicable way to act after someone has died.
Oh wow. That's so sad. What jerks! I only have one child so hopefully if and when I die there won't be any of this. But I also like to think I didn't raise a greedy creep. So sorry this happened to you :(
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