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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, understand your concern.  I have a younger sister who always, always had her hand out in one way or another and played the sympathy card with my parents throughout their lives.  Their estate was always set up to benefit the grandchildren, and my siblings and I were fine with that, just not my younger sister.  Fast forward to my parents passing within weeks of each other, she had at some point gotten them to revise their will and kept it secret from the rest of the family.  I consider it to be elder abuse the games she played, but so be it, she got everything down to the china.  For a small moment in time she invited us to come and take some remembrance of our parents, but even that gesture went away very fast. She was not a squatter, but an opportunist and assumed that because she was the youngest she was and always was entitled to special exception.  Needless to say, she has lost most of the family who refuse to have anything to do with her and I am treading in that direction, not because I need the money but I can't seem to let it go in my own mind how deceptive she was with all of us, especially my elderly parents.  They deserved better than that in their final years.  My hope is they did not see it the way everyone else does.  [/quote]

I have seen this, but the manipulative child was the middle child - never good enough, but consistently trying to sell herself as the "helper" of the family, instead of the constant "taker" that she really was. Parent fed into the golden child gone awry (as s/he always does!), and created a monster.  The manipulative child took priceless family jewelry (nothing less than 24k gold) and photos and more - tried to pawn off everything she didn't want on everyone else (who didn't need more useless stuff). Manipulative One had the cajones to have the (now deceased) parent use the (deceased) parent's money to buy a big life insurance policy, and took all of that, as well.  Never enough. Not to mention, multiple and constant abuses in their elder years. Actually happened with a few family members who are now gone - she wedges her way in there like it is a sport - God forbid she get an actual job.

I personally think OP is smart to be aware, but OP needs to take it up with her dad, not the thieving sister.  I would not let the thieving sister know how you feel at all, because that would give her more ideas. [/quote]

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