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Money and wills bring out the worst in people
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 134161" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>It's a shame how the subject of money seems to bring out the worse in a lot of people! </p><p> </p><p>I have a friend at work whose father (a crazy old man) tried to control her all of her life by threatening to "take her out of the will". She had one brother who was the "golden child" in the family. She, on the other hand, was expected to devote her life to caring for her parents and doing exactly what she was told! The father had several large farms - many, many acres of valuable farmland worth quite a bit of money. The brother groveled to his dad, thinking all the while how wealthy he would be when the father died. My friend pretty well told her father where he could stuff his money, and she went on to make her own happy life with her husband and son and had very little contact with her parents or her brother - it just wasn't worth it to her. </p><p> </p><p>Her mother died first, and then her dad died a few years later, and all he had went to the brother. The brother got the land alright, but found out that his father had mortgaged it to the hilt and all that he had inherited was a huge pile of debts! My friend used the same attorney that her father had used all those years. And one day when she went to the attorney's office on some unrelated matters, the attorney told her that, not only was she not in her father's will, <em>SHE NEVER HAD BEEN</em>! Not even when she was very young! Just goes to show you ... never count on it! </p><p> </p><p>I have just enough insurance to leave each of my kids a decent little windfall, but not enough to make them GLAD that I'm gone! I don't want them to be high-fivin' each other at my funeral!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 134161, member: 1883"] It's a shame how the subject of money seems to bring out the worse in a lot of people! I have a friend at work whose father (a crazy old man) tried to control her all of her life by threatening to "take her out of the will". She had one brother who was the "golden child" in the family. She, on the other hand, was expected to devote her life to caring for her parents and doing exactly what she was told! The father had several large farms - many, many acres of valuable farmland worth quite a bit of money. The brother groveled to his dad, thinking all the while how wealthy he would be when the father died. My friend pretty well told her father where he could stuff his money, and she went on to make her own happy life with her husband and son and had very little contact with her parents or her brother - it just wasn't worth it to her. Her mother died first, and then her dad died a few years later, and all he had went to the brother. The brother got the land alright, but found out that his father had mortgaged it to the hilt and all that he had inherited was a huge pile of debts! My friend used the same attorney that her father had used all those years. And one day when she went to the attorney's office on some unrelated matters, the attorney told her that, not only was she not in her father's will, [I]SHE NEVER HAD BEEN[/I]! Not even when she was very young! Just goes to show you ... never count on it! I have just enough insurance to leave each of my kids a decent little windfall, but not enough to make them GLAD that I'm gone! I don't want them to be high-fivin' each other at my funeral! [/QUOTE]
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