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Hi Everyone,
Brief backstory - I am one of three children from a (what i thought was) a loving family. In 1998 my parents retired and we moved to Cornwall when I was 16.
My brother and sister are both 10 years older than me.
Last year we lost our mother to complications after covid and lung cancer. It came about in conversation some months later about the Will for which my brother and myself had never asked about as it was assumed that anything my parents had left after passing would have been split equally three ways.
Turns out this is not the case and my parents both agreed to leave everything to our sister, thats property, cars and more annoyingly sentimental posessions.
To make things clear my brother and I are both reasonably successful and certainly in the case of our parents we always said that we rather they enjoy themselves and spend every penny of their worth before they passed. However if there was three pence left it is split equally between the three children.
When they bought the house they live in - it has transpired that although they had a joint bank account all their life My mum apparently paid for her half of the property purchase and Dad paid for his?? Upon mum's passing our dad said that our sister has already inherited half of Mums half and he the other half??
Confused? yes so were we?
Our sister then got very defensive and it turned into a brief argument during which we both walked out as it turned into a mess.
I am no expert with this and have never had to deal with anything like this before - Since then (8 months ago) neither have been in touch, not even for my sons first christmas or birthday.
So our sister is set to inherit the house, cars, and more annoyingly the contents of Dads workshop with a lot of sentimental stuff more importantly.
Yes - our father is still alive and I'm talking as if he is not but I would like to try and resolve anything if possible whilst he is still here.
What can we do if anything?
Brief backstory - I am one of three children from a (what i thought was) a loving family. In 1998 my parents retired and we moved to Cornwall when I was 16.
My brother and sister are both 10 years older than me.
Last year we lost our mother to complications after covid and lung cancer. It came about in conversation some months later about the Will for which my brother and myself had never asked about as it was assumed that anything my parents had left after passing would have been split equally three ways.
Turns out this is not the case and my parents both agreed to leave everything to our sister, thats property, cars and more annoyingly sentimental posessions.
To make things clear my brother and I are both reasonably successful and certainly in the case of our parents we always said that we rather they enjoy themselves and spend every penny of their worth before they passed. However if there was three pence left it is split equally between the three children.
When they bought the house they live in - it has transpired that although they had a joint bank account all their life My mum apparently paid for her half of the property purchase and Dad paid for his?? Upon mum's passing our dad said that our sister has already inherited half of Mums half and he the other half??
Confused? yes so were we?
Our sister then got very defensive and it turned into a brief argument during which we both walked out as it turned into a mess.
I am no expert with this and have never had to deal with anything like this before - Since then (8 months ago) neither have been in touch, not even for my sons first christmas or birthday.
So our sister is set to inherit the house, cars, and more annoyingly the contents of Dads workshop with a lot of sentimental stuff more importantly.
Yes - our father is still alive and I'm talking as if he is not but I would like to try and resolve anything if possible whilst he is still here.
What can we do if anything?
