We’ll be waiting for the play by play! 
So, they basically hoovered up everything - it’s just that all he had were clothes and a few incidentals.
Real class acts, like you said. :mad:
I wish I could say you were wrong.
Das Glasperlenspiel, sounds good. Though, the vultures may well consider the debt payments taken from any inheritance they received as still ‘wiping out’ the debt. At least you, and surviving daughter, have the satisfaction of knowing that consequences were still insisted upon for them.
Well in a few months the vultures will be hitting up surviving daughter for loans. (especially if they buy that many lotto tickets) Then of course when surviving daughter passes, the vultures are right there to swoop in again.
In their dreams. SD has already adjusted her will - she did that at the lawyer’s yesterday - The Vultures get nothing. She has also had the locks changed and a security system is being installed. She is also changing the phone number and taking it ex-directory.
MamaT - up here there is no “reading of the will” per se (unless the family requests it - in my experience, most don’t). The lawyer will contact any beneficiaries and advise them but we don’t gather the relatives of the dear departed to read the will. But I agree, this time it would be a lot of fun to watch. I’d sell tickets to that event!
She even made sure the cats were taken care of if something happened to SD.
I’m going to miss this circus when it’s all over - I’ll keep everyone apprised of events!
So will we!
Good for her!
When I was a teen and my parents went on a trip, my mother would speak quite matter-of-factly about what to do in case they died. It was sort of funny. I’m quite sure my siblings are above any vulture-like behavior (and frankly, most are richer than the 'rents), but I guess you never really know until the time comes.
I love Mrs. C and SD.
People are ruthless… even family.
I’ve taken 911 calls with families in fistfights, not hours after a loved one died, because they’re in each others way divying up the stuff.
When my grandmother died about 9 months ago: My Aunt was the first to arrive onscene at the home where she lived. Followed by a County Sheriff (since the death did not occur in a hospital or medical facility), followed by my sister. My sister arrived to find my Aunt going through the jewelery boxes.
My Aunt had some sort of excuse for it at the time.
However, later in the week, certain pieces of jewelery turned up mysteriously missing… nearly all sentimental pieces that had been promised to various family members. (Her Wedding Ring for example). None of the pieces promised to anybody in Aunt’s family were missing.
Aunt claims there was some sort of thievery involved somehow.
Riiiiiight.
Mostly I felt bad for my sister, because she didn’t get the ring she was promised. But at the same time, I am sickened that my Aunt would do something like this.
People just exhibit immense poor taste when surrounded by death.
And she was right!
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but mostly :mad:
I’m glad that Mrs. C and Surviving Daughter were able to make sure that the Vultures got what they deserved, and it’s good that SD has put in so many precautions to make sure that those she intended to get the remains of her household actually get it.
I’m pretty lucky to not be in this situation with my family as far as I know. If either of my parents die, there’s little likelihood of my brothers and I arguing over who gets what, and I have doubts that my uncles would fight over the estate of my mother, who lives across the Atlantic Ocean from them.