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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your friend isn't wrong about what her step-sister is doing but[b] the fact that she cares about this at 62 years old is crazy[/b].  It isn't her money, she needs to just let it go.

And before someone bashes me, I am a ACOD, my father is remarried and I have a step-sibling and a half-sibling on my father's side.  I expect to inherit exactly $0.00 from him and that is fine with me.  [/quote]

To be fair, it's a new situation. It's not like she is upset that the stepsister got her college paid for and she didn't.

But yeah I agree, I mean, [b]as long as she isn't going to be on the hook for financially supporting her father,[/b] this isn't really her battle. I'm sure it's painful and she needs support but she needs some perspective.

(And I'm also an ACOD)[/quote]

The more money that goes out the door to the stepsister, the more likely she *is* going to be on the hook for it-- and maybe for supporting the stepmother too.  And the stepsister doesn't seem to be able to support herself, so what's she gonna do when the cash runs out?[/quote]

You are all making a ton of assumptions here. I can conjure a different set of assumptions that paints the stepsister as altruistically helping the parents and caring for them while OP's friend lives distantly and isn't helping at all. Whatever, who knows. OP is the one asking the question and she isn't even related to these people. Obviously all she can do is offer a listening ear for her friend. The friend can't control anything, so certainly OP cannot. And yeah, not that it matters, but I am also speaking as an ACOD.[/quote]

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