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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I come from the most screwed up family. My grandfather, every time he would get into a fight with anyone, would threaten to cut out their portion of the will. Then they’d make up and pretend it didn’t happen. He passed away and my mom inherited a big chunk. Now she is doing the same thing. At the slightest argument she’ll say something like “don’t expect anything from me when I die.” I would rather not inherit anything than hear about it for the next couple of decades. Does anyone else have family like this and how would you handle it?[/quote]

Yes, this is pretty common -- it's just garden variety control. Folks who have a lot of money can use it to (attempt to) control their kids. If they didn't have money, they wouldn't use money for control, but would most certainly engage in a myriad other ways. My mother was constantly screaming "I'll cut you off!!!" Ugh. I finally said "Who cares?" She never did. [/quote]

Yeah, I'll cut you off, I won't babysit for you, I'll never speak to you again, its about control not the acutal money.

As far as dysfunction goes, this is pretty small beer.  Talk to me when you have alcoholics, living on disability, suicide attempts, and affairs.  And this was a family with NO money (cut you out of the will would have been hilarious).[/quote]

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