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Originally Posted by troutman
Not uncommon to see monkey business like this. How did he change a will after death?
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He was a multimillionaire trader/businessman in China who moved his fortune to Hong Kong right before the war. He made his fortune during the time of trade imbalance where British merchants had to pay China in silver bullion for silk and teas (before they figured out they could get the Chinese addicted to opium from India and Turkey). The version I heard was that the eldest son bribed some officials, and all paperwork and evidence (even birth certificates for my grandparents) were lost during the Japanese occupation and and the communization of China.
There is one aunt I do talk to on occasion from that side of her family and she is living in a $5 million dollar apartment (one of many) in Australia that I went to once and I simply could not believe it when I visited it.
It's hard not to feel some sense of entitlement. That's a big issue with money and families. I just have to accept that while her fortune was made with my family's stolen fortune, she must have made good investments to sustain that lifestyle as well.