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[quote=Anonymous]Long story.

Mother's side of the family: huge multi-generational saga, starting with grandfather leaving all his money and property to his only son and leaving out the 6 daughters, and an attempt to concentrate wealth on the titled heir of the estate. Daughters can go hang. Strictly illegal according to the law of the land (not in the US)! Legal proceedings are started, son comes out with chits of paper signed by his sisters stating they accept the will, which he had pressured them to sign with threats from a sinister lawyer friend. Sisters cowed into not saying anything for years - 20 years, while brother enjoys the estate and fruits thereof. Resentment builds up. One sister goes to court by herself against her brother - they don't speak to each other ever again.

I grow up and realize that chits of paper are meaningless in the eyes of the law, so tell my mother and aunts to go to court as a group, they'll be more powerful that way. Proceedings opened all over again, brother will surely lose, but sisters stupidly decide to settle it out of court and agree to an inheritance far below what the law could have guaranteed. In the name of "family", which is rubbish, but they can't shake off years of being told girls are worthless. Neither their father, mother or brother had ever done anything to help them in their lives (this includes denying them an education or help when they were practically homeless trying to find jobs).

Result, years of lawyers and strife for not a lot of money at the end because they were afraid to go all the way. The brother (my uncle) and his family are not speaking to any of his sisters (my mother and aunts), or to their children. Apparently he can't stand the partial loss of his ill-gotten gains.

Oh, and there's a sex angle as well, linked to a mysterious "disappearance" at sea of a relative vacationing with his wife and grown sons, who just before had paraded in fornt of his wife at a family wedding with his mistress, that I prefer to leave out. Really, my family history could be turned into a TV saga. Life is stranger than fiction and all that.

This is why I married my husband - his family is so normal and sane!

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