Thinking of filing for Divorce married 36yrs

[Kpursel1]

Need some advise recently my husbands parents have past he has a large sum of money in a trust set up for him and his sister, am I entitled to any of that money?

[Anonymous]

I hope not. Greedy.

[Anonymous]

Umm, aren't you the same lady that just posted about your 24 yr old waitress daughter who engaged to marry a 29 yr old "loser"? Or are you a bored troll?

And can you type anything other than a run-on sentence?

[Anonymous]

I hope not. Greedy.

Seriously?? We are talking 36 years of marriage not 36 months.

[Anonymous]

I would speak to a family law attorney.

[Anonymous]

It doesn't matter how long you have been married. No one, including the children of the deceased, is "entitled" to anything. The money goes to whomever the deceased decided it should go to. Period.

Greedy troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I hope not. Greedy.

Seriously?? We are talking 36 years of marriage not 36 months.

His families money has nothing to do with you. Now that he has money, you want a divorce and to take the money? GREEDY. Get your daughters life together and yours.

[Anonymous]

No, that's why, in their wisdom, his parents put it in a trust-to keep it out of your hands

[Anonymous]

when you learn to spell "advice" and "passed", then the terms of the trust might let you latch on to a couple of bucks, otherwise you just sound like a greedy troll.

[Anonymous]

Okay okay people. Spelling aside, there is a point here. The last of my parents passed away last year and I inherited. My understanding was that that was my money, not ours, which I could spend as I wished. DH didn't see it that way and it became a very sore point so to keep the peace I deposited it into our joint savings. Subsequently I met with a divorce lawyer who said an inheritance is absolutely unequivocally the property of the person who inherited, unlike any other property within a marriage. However the deposit of an inheritance into a joint account is the end of that privileged position of inheritance money. Good to know, too late for me.

[Anonymous]

Kpursel1 wrote:Need some advise recently my husbands parents have past he has a large sum of money in a trust set up for him and his sister, am I entitled to any of that money?

If the money is in trust, it is controlled by the terms of the trust. Very often a spouse does not have any standing in a family trust. The controlling document is the trust and its provisions, which divorce law cannot override.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter how long you have been married. No one, including the children of the deceased, is "entitled" to anything. The money goes to whomever the deceased decided it should go to. Period.

Greedy troll.

I disagree, children are entitled to support until they turn 18. Any parent who has chosen to have a child( still a minor) and has no provision for them should be ashamed of themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter how long you have been married. No one, including the children of the deceased, is "entitled" to anything. The money goes to whomever the deceased decided it should go to. Period.

Greedy troll.

I disagree, children are entitled to support until they turn 18. Any parent who has chosen to have a child( still a minor) and has no provision for them should be ashamed of themselves.

Point taken. I did not mean to include minor children. Of course minor children should be provided for. I was writing about adult children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay okay people. Spelling aside, there is a point here. The last of my parents passed away last year and I inherited. My understanding was that that was my money, not ours, which I could spend as I wished. DH didn't see it that way and it became a very sore point so to keep the peace I deposited it into our joint savings. Subsequently I met with a divorce lawyer who said an inheritance is absolutely unequivocally the property of the person who inherited, unlike any other property within a marriage. However the deposit of an inheritance into a joint account is the end of that privileged position of inheritance money. Good to know, too late for me.

Yes, once it's "co-mingled" with marital money, it may not be privileged anymore.

[Anonymous]

No apologies to the op? You guys were pretty vicious.