broken china 1471You can be thankful that your set was complete; I know you are. I inherited a set of china from my in-laws after m-i-l died. When DH was...
The Bubbo
broken china 1472trouble wrote in Steven got Wedgewood after his mother died some 20 years ago. I had a gob of Waterford when Steven and I got...
Bummer. There is nothing quite like an inheritance to bring out the worst in siblings. I have seen several families fall apart from fights over their parents' estates. It's a damned shame. Even the most seemingly fair minded people sometimes have distorted versions of fairness.
My wife and sister were executors of their father's will. The father had cut the brother out of his will after an argument with him, but he later relented and gave him a 20% share with 405 going to each of the other two. When they split things up they gave him an equal share. They figured that he would have been upset if he had been short changed and that family harmony was more important than the money.
A friend of mine was executor of his father's will and one of the buttets was a building that had housed a donut shop which happened to be in his city. His brother and two sisters are scattered across the country. He had the property evaluated and arranged the financing to buy it off the estate. The day before the deal went through his sister called and said that she and the other brother had discussed it and thought the offer was to low. He told them it wasn't an offer, that is it. Take it or leave it. Now they are going to have to wait for the property to be sold, perhaps at a lower price. He is very comfortably retired at 48. He doesn't need the money, but the rest of them do.
