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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
There is some weird switch popping up in people’s heads (mostly in siblings, unfortunately) when there is anything left after a parent’s death. As Locke said, things get really ugly pretty fast and furious. I know a pair of wealthy lawyers - brother and sister - who stopped talking forever after the sister took mom’s couch without talking to her brother first. The old f…n’ couch! A colleague from a large ranching family of 5 siblings - all peaceful and graceful from an old-fashion Alberta small-town community - suing each other after one sister who lived with their old father in his last year somehow made him change his will in her favour a few months before his death. I mean how is all this unexplainable greed for a few bucks and a few chattels justified in people’s heads??? Beats me.
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Oh man, the stories I could tell.
I once was doing Tax work for a family where the Father passed away and they had a family corporation, there were 4 siblings and the Mother.
The eldest daughter was the Executor of the Estate and an Executive of the Corporation and she was Executing the Will while simultaneously preparing to sue the Estate and contest the Will because since she was operating the family company she felt entitled to more.
That was Ugly with a capital 'U.'
I mean, to the point where I had to have the family members make separate appointments because if they were in my office at the same time we were frighteningly close to real physical violence.