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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Please do meet with a lawyer. Figure out what your options are, and then figure out the best way to execute them. You are under ZERO legal obligation to let your cousin live in your house indefinitely, but you may have to work with the courts (and possibly the Marshals) to evict her. That can take some time and does require written notice. It would be better if you could come to an agreement with her instead[/quote]

You should meet with a lawyer and let Mary and Roy know you are doing so. It would be taking the high road if you were to suggest to Mary and Roy that they should also see a lawyer, but not the same one you are seeing. It would be a conflict of interest for the lawyer to advise all three of you. They should have a lawyer who is representing their interests and you should have your own lawyer representing your interests.

Even after reading through the cultural explanation above, I do find it hard to believe that a woman would have such a preference for her nephew's daughter over her own daughter. I love and respect my great aunt, but I can't imagine her liking me better than her own daughter. And I would feel really weird if she died and left me so much more than she left her own children.

Putting myself in the shoes of the OP, I would feel that a disservice had been done and I would talk to the lawyer about redistributing the estate so that Mary and Roy got most of it. That's just how I would feel about it, obviously. I just don't think I could move forward in my life knowing how oddly unbalanced this inheritance was. I am not at all suggesting that you should do this, OP, just saying that it would make me feel so weird that I don't think I could ever get any pleasure from owning that house.
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