Post by thejesus on Jul 30, 2009 14:18:28 GMT -6
I got a question for you lawyers and anyone else who knows what's up.
I'll lay out the situation and tell me what you think:
I have a Great Grandma who passed away like 4-5 years ago (cancer). She was fairly loaded and had a nice house and shit tons of farmland. She wasn't always the nicest person to my family (kind of a bitch actually). I remember loving her as a kid cause she always got me the best Christmas presents (bought me a NES when I was like 8....best Christmas ever). But as I got older I realized she was a racist, judgmental old hag who just wanted everyone else to be as miserable as she was.
Anyway, I'm ranting here. Back to the story. She passed away somewhere around 4-5 years ago (can't remember for sure). At the time of her passing she had two sons....... Gary, (my mother's dad, my grandpa) who was essentially a vegetable in some institution (he was hit while walking along the side of the road when I was just a young lad, probably 25 years ago), and Ray (my great Uncle, who himself is loaded). She then had two Grandchildren, my mom and my Aunt Missy.
In her will, she left the house to my mother and my Aunt. The stipulation at the time was that her second husband, my Grandpa Russ, could live in the house as long as he wanted to. Once he moved out, it was my Aunt's and my mom's house to do what they wanted with. The house is probably worth $200,000-$300,000. The rest of her land, and assets (somewhere between $2,000,000-$4,000,000) was left to her son, Ray. Nothing was left to Gary (my Grandpa, the vegetable). Some may think I'm being insensitive with that last comment, but my Grandpa was an alcoholic asshole who beat my Grandma on a regular basis, so fuck him. Karma hit him like a ton a bricks.....or 1 ton of truck, depending on how you want to look at it.
Anyway, fast forward to a couple weeks ago. My Grandpa, Russ (Great Grandma's 2nd husband, not the vegetable), has moved out of the house into a retirement community. Ray, the son who inherited all of the money, meets up with my Mom and Aunt at the house to get it into shape to sell. Ray, my great uncle, tends to be a control-freak type personality. Or at least that's the only thing I can think of to explain what happens next.
At the end of the day he proceeds to tell my mother and Aunt, in a smug manner, that up until 3 months before my Great Grandma died, her will had left everything except the house to my sister, Mollie. To reiterate, roughly 2-4 million dollars. My sister is now 15 years old. She would have been somewhere around 10 or 11 at the time of her passing. He tells my mother and Aunt that he made my Grandma changed her will and leave it all to him instead. Keep in mind that he was already a millionaire before his mother died. He had more money then she did to begin with.
Why the fuck would he tell my family this? It must be purely out of the fact that he can. I think he wanted them to know that he did it and doesn't think anything can be done about it now. Keep in mind that 90 days before she passed, she was in end-stage cancer and bed-ridden completely doped up on god knows how many medications.
Here is the kicker. My mom and Missy don't want to do anything about it. They don't want to "upset the family". Which is ludicrous because that side of the family could give two shits about them anyway. My dad (ex-attorney, currently divorced from my mom) suggested that they file a lawsuit. He said something about the statute of limitations is 4 months regarding disputing a will, but that it would apply from the time that they were informed of this circumstance and not from the date that she passed away. My uncle Ray's comments were witnessed by 5 people......although all of them are family members with the exception of my mother's boyfriend.
I just wandered what some of your legal advice would be in a situation like this. It sounds like they don't want to do anything about it. And to be honest, I think Mollie inheriting 2-4 million dollars once she turned 18 would not be in her best interests (she's something of a wild child). But still. It feels wrong and pisses me off.
What do you guys think?
I'll lay out the situation and tell me what you think:
I have a Great Grandma who passed away like 4-5 years ago (cancer). She was fairly loaded and had a nice house and shit tons of farmland. She wasn't always the nicest person to my family (kind of a bitch actually). I remember loving her as a kid cause she always got me the best Christmas presents (bought me a NES when I was like 8....best Christmas ever). But as I got older I realized she was a racist, judgmental old hag who just wanted everyone else to be as miserable as she was.
Anyway, I'm ranting here. Back to the story. She passed away somewhere around 4-5 years ago (can't remember for sure). At the time of her passing she had two sons....... Gary, (my mother's dad, my grandpa) who was essentially a vegetable in some institution (he was hit while walking along the side of the road when I was just a young lad, probably 25 years ago), and Ray (my great Uncle, who himself is loaded). She then had two Grandchildren, my mom and my Aunt Missy.
In her will, she left the house to my mother and my Aunt. The stipulation at the time was that her second husband, my Grandpa Russ, could live in the house as long as he wanted to. Once he moved out, it was my Aunt's and my mom's house to do what they wanted with. The house is probably worth $200,000-$300,000. The rest of her land, and assets (somewhere between $2,000,000-$4,000,000) was left to her son, Ray. Nothing was left to Gary (my Grandpa, the vegetable). Some may think I'm being insensitive with that last comment, but my Grandpa was an alcoholic asshole who beat my Grandma on a regular basis, so fuck him. Karma hit him like a ton a bricks.....or 1 ton of truck, depending on how you want to look at it.
Anyway, fast forward to a couple weeks ago. My Grandpa, Russ (Great Grandma's 2nd husband, not the vegetable), has moved out of the house into a retirement community. Ray, the son who inherited all of the money, meets up with my Mom and Aunt at the house to get it into shape to sell. Ray, my great uncle, tends to be a control-freak type personality. Or at least that's the only thing I can think of to explain what happens next.
At the end of the day he proceeds to tell my mother and Aunt, in a smug manner, that up until 3 months before my Great Grandma died, her will had left everything except the house to my sister, Mollie. To reiterate, roughly 2-4 million dollars. My sister is now 15 years old. She would have been somewhere around 10 or 11 at the time of her passing. He tells my mother and Aunt that he made my Grandma changed her will and leave it all to him instead. Keep in mind that he was already a millionaire before his mother died. He had more money then she did to begin with.
Why the fuck would he tell my family this? It must be purely out of the fact that he can. I think he wanted them to know that he did it and doesn't think anything can be done about it now. Keep in mind that 90 days before she passed, she was in end-stage cancer and bed-ridden completely doped up on god knows how many medications.
Here is the kicker. My mom and Missy don't want to do anything about it. They don't want to "upset the family". Which is ludicrous because that side of the family could give two shits about them anyway. My dad (ex-attorney, currently divorced from my mom) suggested that they file a lawsuit. He said something about the statute of limitations is 4 months regarding disputing a will, but that it would apply from the time that they were informed of this circumstance and not from the date that she passed away. My uncle Ray's comments were witnessed by 5 people......although all of them are family members with the exception of my mother's boyfriend.
I just wandered what some of your legal advice would be in a situation like this. It sounds like they don't want to do anything about it. And to be honest, I think Mollie inheriting 2-4 million dollars once she turned 18 would not be in her best interests (she's something of a wild child). But still. It feels wrong and pisses me off.
What do you guys think?
