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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=anonymous]People can be influenced in ways that don't involve being dragged and held at gun point. We have heard this story only from one side and, as with any story, it might look very different when told from another side.

I have read a lot of wills and most of them with the level of assets involved in the situation recounted here leave everything to the children of the couple, to be divided equally. Leaving large bequests to people outside the nuclear family is not common, particularly when those amounts are larger than those left to the decedent's own children. 
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If Thelma was a religious person, she probably took the fact that Larla was her GOD-DAUGHTER very seriously and treated her as if she was an actual daughter.  Churches mandate that a godparent has a responsibility toward a godchild.  Larla was not just some random distant relative.  That was mentioned repeatedly in the thread, both by Larla and othr posters.  [/quote]

Anyone who is so religious that they would consider a god-daughter the same as a daughter would not treat their own children worse than the god-daighter.

BTW, which religions mandate that a godchild be treated the same as one's own children? I am only familiar with religions that place responsibility for religious instruction on the godparents, so I am curious which religions put the heavier responsibility of the possibility of Godchildren becoming the same as your own children. 
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But has Mary really been treated "worse"? or even badly at all?[/quote]

Well, Mary received $100,000 and a car.  Larla, Mary's first cousin once removed, received the family home that Mary grew up in. According to Larla, that home is worth about $400,000.

So, yes, from the information we've been given here, the great-niece/goddaughter has acquired far more monetary value from Thelma's will than Thelma's own daughter. Especially in this area, where housing is very expensive.

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You are forgetting the fact that Mary has also been receiving a stipend from her mother her WHOLE LIFE, free housing, food, etc...

As a parent, I would have kicked my child out of my house a long time ago. What Thelma did for her child is way beyond what she should have done or been responsible for doing.

Children, are supposed to become adults and then lead their own lives.

Parents are supposed to be able to have their own lives as well, without being mooched off of by their 50 year old daughters.

Nothing confusing or weird about this to me.

Mary got what she deserved.[/quote]

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