A young woman recently asked the Reddit community for advice on what to do with her late mother’s inheritance. Her mother’s sisters want her to share the money, but that’s not what her mother wanted…she thinks.
Here’s what she had to say.
The 25-year-old woman recently lost her mother to cancer. She and her 35-year-old brother were the mother’s only children.
For the past seven years, the woman has been living in an apartment that her mother had bought for her.
The mother had always expressed her wish for her daughter to inherit the apartment upon her death, as she had worked tirelessly to ensure her daughter had a stable place to live. After her passing, the mother’s will granted the apartment to the daughter.
“My brother has no issue with this. He makes more than enough of his own money and actually owns an apartment in the same building,” the woman said.
However, their two aunts were not content with the arrangement.
Aunt A had struggled with financial issues for years, often relying on the mother for monetary support. Aunt B was financially stable but not in a position to help Aunt A.
Both aunts believed that since the niece could afford to rent a place, she should allow Aunt A to live in the apartment and rent her own, as they believed this would have been the mother’s wish.
“I said no, stating that my mother wanted me to have a place of my own. I am currently saving all the money I would have used on rent and intend to buy my own house when I have enough saved,” the woman explained.
Upon hearing her refusal, the aunts suggested that the niece and her brother should share some of the money from their mother’s life insurance policies with them.
The mother had left two policies to her children along with her house and car and had not bequeathed anything to anyone else.
The aunts felt this was unjust and that they, particularly Aunt A, deserved some of the money.
“My brother blocked them all on platforms when they asked this of him and suggested I do the same, but I feel guilty about cutting off my family,” she said.
But the woman also strongly believed that if her mother had wanted the aunts to receive any money, she would have left them something in her will.
She knew her mother well and was confident that she would have informed her if she wanted the inheritance to be shared.
The mother had only expressed her desire for her children to be able to support themselves after her death, and there was nothing else stated in the will.
So the woman reached out to the Reddit community and asked if she should share her inheritance with the aunts.
One user said, “there is absolutely no way you’re the AH in this situation. Sorry for your loss, but I’m afraid the only way forward is to cut your toxic aunties out of the picture, as your brother did.”
Another stated, “your aunts are adults who need to able to provide for themselves. Neither your mother nor you or your brother owe them ANYTHING at all.”
What do you think the young woman should do?
Source: Reddit
