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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"My brother contested our aunt's will. She left everything to me and he got all pissed. He hardly called or visited her in the last 5 years of her life. He did not win. Our parents tried to pressure us to settle, meaning I split half and half with him. I would've done it anyway had he not sued me. So I fought to the end."

Pretty much whenever someone "leaves everything" to one person, it's a messed up situation that will cause conflict and hurt feelings. Hardly calling an aunt for the last 5 of what was probably at least 60 years of life is hardly grounds for cutting someone off. Why couldn't you have just split some of it with him? [/quote]

Yeah, I pretty much agree. How long passed before the brother contested?

When I hear these scenarios, I just don't understand why the recipient just doesn't make an offer to the sibling(s). Heck, I tried to save the remaining portion of the original family homestead from having to be sold off for Medicaid reasons as neither of my surviving siblings stand to inherit anything. DH and I have plenty of money, but I tried to keep something for them.[/quote]

The last two sentences of the post say if the brother hadn’t sued her she would’ve split it. It sounds like he jumped the gun and went straight for the throat instead of discussing the situation with her and letting her make an offer. [/quote]

PP here - i'm just curious in how much time passed from the reading of the will to the suit.[/quote]

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