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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What questions, exactly, have I ignored?

If you mean the constant, "But WHY did she leave YOU the house instead of her kids?!?!?!"

The answer is that I DO NOT KNOW. I can guess it is because she has floated my cousin/godsister all this time and gave her some money and called it even[/quote]

If this were a TV movie we were watching, I would say the answer to the question of why Thelma left the house to Larla goes back to the day Thelma and Larla's grandmother went to the lawyer together to have Thelma's will written. How interesting that when they left that office, Thelma's home was being left to her sister's granddaughter instead of her own two children. If this were a movie, I think a flashback to what happened in that lawyer's office would answer that question.

Sorry, I know you'd prefer not to have to think of it this way, but the way Thelma's assets were divided in her will is not at all common. It is much more common for an estate to be divided evenly among the children of the deceased. Skipping over the deceased's own children to leave a large asset like a family home to a great niece is highly unusual. It is just not how these things are typically done. I have read a lot of wills and I've never seen one that handled the family home in this manner.

And here's some questions that were never answered: Who served as the witnesses to the will? Who produced the copy of the will after Thelma died? was the lawyer who wrote the will the same one who handled the disposition of the will?

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Oh my goodness yes. That fateful day that two old ladies went to a lawyer will live in INFAMY. Who knows what happened in that law office, behind closed doors? The flashback had better have fog and ominous music.

If Mary was my daughter - who I paid college tuition for, who I supported when she was down and out, and who, ultimately, does not care to use any of the help I gave her to establish her own life - I would not leave her the house either. She was left a sum of cash and a car. I would leave the asset to someone else. If I had a goddaughter who seemed to be in a situation where she would either appreciate the house or the cash from the sale of the house, I'd leave the house to her. [/quote]

Exactly.
Funny how it seems the one poster who doesn't believe the story CONSTANTLY has the most to write  (and I know you want us to believe there are many of you witing these long winded posts, but the lengthy writing styles point to just one... and thankfully she won't be back (so she says).  :roll: [/quote]

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