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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does "wrote I think off' so to speak" mean?  Not obvious your dad doesn't have a claim.

I'd just keep my head down and be nice to everyone.[/quote]

When my grandmother died, my father and brother had a small quarrel over the loan. It looked like a bad investment and my father wanted my uncle to deduct the entire value from my uncle’s half. My uncle was not willing to do that. Eventually, my father made a big deal of saying the loan amount didn’t matter. I know he has brought this up at least a few times as if rubbing in to my uncle that he was the bigger man and could spare the money. Only now that the payoff is coming, he has reopened it. [/quote]

So, was the loan amount deducted from just your uncle's half, or from both their inheritances equally?
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They split the remaining estate equally so [b]my assumption is that the bad loan was split equally[/b]. My father was more than satisfied until now as [b]he was able to brag that he walked away from that amount in order to preserve family harmony[/b]. Now, he is destroying the harmony. [/quote]

So in your version, your dad ate the loss on the bad loan he wanted no part of, and that makes him a braggart.

Now the loan was a good idea, it paid off in spades, and your dad should be cheated out of his half or he's a troublemaker.

What is the family term for the uncle who steals money from a dying woman to make a risky investment, is happy to cost other people a portion of their inheritance when it looks like it's a bust, and then keeps everyone's share for himself when it pays off?  Good guy?[/quote]

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