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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tale as old as time.  
New butt kissers swoop in at the end and the seniles can’t remember anything. Sounds like the one set ain’t having it. And the one who got divorced and sickly, then re-papered her will got raked over! [/quote]

I just posted, but this is so true. It's happening with my mother who was always manipulative and self-involved. Practically estranged sibling is now her BFF with mom and convinced her to push me out and take me off POA. Random cousins are crawling out of the woodwork and becoming sycophantic. Mom is working it too, reminding people she has lots of money and they need to kiss the ring, and they are lining up and smooching it. She is not considered cognitively impaired and likely will refuse future evaluations at formerly estranged sibling's suggestion so nothing I can do, but my father who actually earned that money and was a big saver is rolling in his grave. Funny thing is last emergency; they still expected me to upend my life and didn't think all their financial gifts came with strings.

You can drown in resentment or accept reality and live your best life. I chose the latter. Life is too short and in so many of these tales the person was Machiavellian gets the jackpot only to have something awful happen. I read some story of famous insanely rich family. One sibling scored the entire inheritance through deception and then gets diagnosed with late-stage cancer. In my friend's family, the evil sibling got most of the inheritance taking advantage of an elder with dementia and then was struck with some incurable disease within a few years that ate up a lot of money with treatments. Once I was pushed out, I decided it was their job to deal with emergencies, etc and I devote myself to my job, spouse, kids and friends. Surprise, surprise they didn't want to deal. They just wanted lots of $$$, but didn't feel obliged to do anything helpful. I invest my money well and save. As I get older, I am going to try to figure out how to protect my assets for my kids equally and plan for my own care assuming I outlive my husband. [/quote]

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