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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your Husband is right. Don’t let this new woman fleece your father. [/quote]

+1. Take it from someone whose father got totally screwed by his “stepmother” when my grandfather died a few years after he married his second wife. And this is a woman who the family knew for decades before they got married. Have the conversation OP. My father still resents his dad 30 years after his death because of what happened with the will. My dad ended up paying half of the funeral costs and inherited 1/4 of what he should have.

If either of my parents ever get remarried, I will 100 percent having the conversation.  I’m happy your dad is happy but you have to be realistic. This is your mother’s money too. [/quote]
And if I were OP’s dad I’d laugh in your face.[/quote]

That's fine, and I hope you are never in a situation like this.  It ripped my family apart and things were not good for a long time with my dad and his siblings.  He tried to do the right thing by the new wife and she knifed him in the back over and over again.  It was awful.  I don't want to see that happen to OP and have her resent her father for years after he dies because they didn't have a conversation that adults should have.  My parents have been married for 45 years, are totally healthy and we've had the conversation.  It's not just about inheritance but, like others have said, long-term care, funeral costs, how to even access the will--having it all laid out is smart, especially at 68 (the age where my grandfather died suddenly and left my dad to deal with the aftermath).[/quote]

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