{"id":3344,"date":"2025-06-21T21:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T21:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/3344\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T21:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T21:04:09","slug":"grandfather-leaves-woman-a-significant-sum-in-his-will-now-her-half-sister-insists-she-deserves-her-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/3344\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandfather Leaves Woman a \u2018Significant Sum\u2019 in His Will. Now, Her Half-Sister Insists She Deserves Her Share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n<ul class=\"caas-list caas-list-bullet\">\n<li>\n<p>A woman received an unexpected inheritance from her grandfather<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>She is looking for guidance on how to deal with pressure from her mom to share\u00a0with her half-sister, who bullied her as a kid<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Many believe she should keep the money, stating that sharing would go against her grandfather&#8217;s wishes<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A woman is being pressured to share her inheritance with her half-sister despite their rocky past.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old took to Reddit to share her side of things, explaining that her grandfather left her &#8220;a significant sum in his will,&#8221; which has since become a point of contention amid her family.<\/p>\n<p>To give more context, the woman notes that she has a half-sister named &#8220;Amy.&#8221; Growing up, the poster&#8217;s mom always insisted that the two girls &#8220;should be treated the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, the poster says that Amy &#8220;made [her] life hell,&#8221; by &#8220;bullying&#8221; her, &#8220;stealing&#8221; her stuff, and getting her in trouble for things she &#8220;didn&#8217;t do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She notes that they &#8220;were never close,&#8221; and that they didn&#8217;t speak for years after Amy moved out at 18.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caas-img caas-lazy has-preview\" alt=\"Getty Stock image of two women upset at each other\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/c8c1fd4e8d8f04c22d857391753e2a16.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p> Stock image of two women upset at each other<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now that my grandfather passed, my half-sister and my mom are both saying it&#8217;s only fair that I split what I got 50\/50 because &#8216;family is family,'&#8221; the poster writes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like after everything my half-sister put me through, I don&#8217;t owe her anything, especially when she makes it clear all these years she made it clear she wanted nothing to do with me unless she needed something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her mom has been &#8220;guilt-tripping&#8221; her, saying that she is &#8220;being selfish and that Grandpa would&#8217;ve wanted us to share.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, the woman counters this by emphasizing that &#8220;the will names me and not her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u00a0PEOPLE&#039;s free daily newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u00a0PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many people agreed with her in the comments, noting that she doesn&#8217;t owe her half-sister anything, especially if her grandfather didn&#8217;t name her in the will.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Grandpa left it to you. I bet he knew how awful she was to you,&#8221; one person wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Another mirrored this sentiment, adding, &#8220;Of course, your half-sister wants you to share, and of course, she wouldn&#8217;t share if the roles were reversed. It&#8217;s called greed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The comments were united in letting the woman know that she should honor her grandfather&#8217;s wishes, with one person writing, &#8220;If grandpa wanted that, he would have split it. You don&#8217;t owe her anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/woman-refuses-to-share-inheritance-with-half-sister-who-bullied-her-as-a-kid-11755455\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:People;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW A woman received an unexpected inheritance from her grandfather She is looking for guidance on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,4393,255,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-half-sister","tag-personal-finance","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114723387317380515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}