OT: Friendly advice for those with elderly family members

[john doe by choice]

Personally, I never expected any money, and didn't even know that my aunt had passed away - this is a gift, and if I'd never been told about it, my life would go on. It would be nice to receive some memorabilia from my aunt's possessions, but I never expected a red cent from her or anyone else.

After further reading I can only re-iterate: tough shit.

You petulant piggies obviously don't deserve a bean.

bOunce - I think it's pretty fair to say that everyone here knows you're a asshole, there's no need to go on reminding everyone.

It looks as though, with your apparently genius-like reading skills, you missed that first part. Anyway, it's no secret that you're just an internet troll with nothing better to do than be a dumbass, right down there with Timur (who knows, maybe you have are Timur, you're obviously bitter at people in this forum for some reason).

[brightonalex]

She wasn't of sound mind! You can't sign a contract if you are drugged and on your deathbed.
But you're right the lawyers are going to need to be paid.

[tamtam]

My own mother did the same thing to me and my kids when my grandfather became ill. She never spoke to the guy for close to 20 years (bitter about something I was never privy to) and I was the one who called him, visited him, wrote him and fostered a relationship. Toward the end of his life, I had a young child and some life struggles (finding stable work, a few failed business opportunities that included music), that put me into a bad place where I was "ashamed" to keep in frequent communication. My "intuition" arouse me to call him one day, and the caretaker said that he had only a few weeks to live, and to visit him asap. When I arrived there, I found out that my mother had "let go of the past," and fostered a newfound relationship with her father, my grandfather......While terminal, she had his will changed a month before he died, and all of his estate was left to her. She refused to acknowledge the situation, and I had to contact a lawyer (we were talking a few hundred grand that could have helped me, my children, my future, the planet, charity, etc...), who after 2 years of handling the case on contingency, admitted that there is no way to win unless we spend thousands of dollars on depositions, etc (he lived in FL, we are in CA)..... I don't have those kinds of funds.

Sad to say my mother and I never spoke again, she never met her grandchildren, and left such a sense of betrayal upon me, that I could never let her meet my children.....

It is sad to see people and families get so greedy.

funny how someone who wanted to sue his mom for not giving him money she inherited from his grandfather complains about greedy people.