{"id":312196,"date":"2026-01-30T21:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/312196\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T21:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:05:15","slug":"his-mother-in-laws-will-was-clear-that-only-one-grandchild-would-inherit-her-money-but-this-husband-wants-it-to-be-split-equally-between-his-two-daughters-twistedsifter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/312196\/","title":{"rendered":"His Mother-In-Law\u2019s Will Was Clear That Only One Grandchild Would Inherit Her Money, But This Husband Wants It To Be Split Equally Between His Two Daughters \u00bb TwistedSifter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shutterstock\/Reddit<\/p>\n

People might not like what they see in wills from family members, but, at the end of the<\/a> day, wills are legally binding documents and they can\u2019t be changed unless official steps are followed.<\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t mean some people don\u2019t try from time to time\u2026<\/p>\n

In this story, a parent wants her two daughters to split the inheritance from their grandmother evenly, but things are working out as expected.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a look!<\/p>\n

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\u201cI have two daughters that were my late mother-in-law\u2019s only grandchildren, Elise (22f) and Rea (21f).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Grandma definitely had a favorite\u2026<\/p>\n

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She always favored Elise because Elise wanted to follow in her footsteps and be just like her. She spent so much more time with Elise, teaching her her profession and using her connections to get her set up in her field.<\/p>\n

When she went into care, she had to disperse her assets to pay for it. She took yet another opportunity to favor Elise by making sure she alone got her tools and a small amount of land that she used to set up greenhouses.<\/p>\n

She passed a little over a year ago, and we got a letter in the mail about a trust that she had set up about a decade ago. There isn\u2019t much, about $30,000.<\/p>\n

The trust states that it\u2019s supposed to be shared equally between her grandchildren and can only be fully dispersed when the youngest is 21. The only two grandchildren are my daughters, Elise and Rea, and Rea just turned 21.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Grandma was pretty clear about what she wanted.<\/p>\n

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We asked about it, and got the answer that unfortunately, only Elise is eligible to withdraw any money from this trust. She set up a clause that anyone who had a child before the minimum age to inherit is automatically disqualified.<\/p>\n

In short, if one of the grandchildren has a baby before age 21, they get $0 and their portion goes to the other heirs.<\/p>\n

Rea has a two year old son, and Elise doesn\u2019t have kids, so according to the terms, Elise gets 100%.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m mad.<\/p>\n

My wife wants to just let it go and ignore that it ever existed, just like the land. I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

My mother-in-law never treated Rea like a real grandchild. She never spent real time with her or gave her the same opportunities. At the time she set this up, Elise had had to undergo a hysterectomy. She set this up so that only Rea could \u201cfail\u201d and she\u2019d have an excuse to get a dig in one last time.<\/p>\n

I swallowed the land thing because it was affected Elise\u2019s career and there were already things to maintain that only Elise cared to, but this is too much.<\/p>\n

I think Elise is obligated to do the right thing and split this with her sister. Elise thinks we shouldn\u2019t fight the will and my wife is trying to \u201cstay neutral\u201d.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Check out how Reddit users reacted to this story.<\/p>\n

This person said he\u2019s to blame.<\/p>\n

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Another individual agreed.<\/p>\n

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This Reddit user shared their thoughts.<\/p>\n

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Another person spoke up.<\/p>\n

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And this reader had a lot to say.<\/p>\n

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No good solutions to this problem!<\/p>\n

If you thought that was an interesting story, check out what happened when a family gave their in-laws a free place to stay in exchange for babysitting, but things changed when they don\u2019t hold up their end of the bargain.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shutterstock\/Reddit People might not like what they see in wills from family members, but, at the end of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[5409,79,18,5412,1652,19,4518,17,825,234,235,5417,3408,3700,4612],"class_list":{"0":"post-312196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-aita","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entity","12":"tag-family","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-inheritance","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-money","17":"tag-personal-finance","18":"tag-personalfinance","19":"tag-picture","20":"tag-reddit","21":"tag-relationships","22":"tag-top"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115986086254162887","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}