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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would intervene. I don't give a F if people say MYOB. I would defend my younger brother to an a** of a brother.

Take older brother to task.[/quote]

Or to court.[/quote]

With no written agreement between the brothers about any "loan" and the fact the younger brother gave the money willingly to the older one, there may not be any legal leg to stand on for a lawsuit. I also think maybe the older brother doesn't have the money to repay. What are the odds he owed money somewhere himself and that's why he was going after the brother's inheritance?

But the threat of a lawsuit might be enough to scare him into coughing up something if he's afraid of word getting out. If he's into appearances and playing the noble veteran etc., he might balk at being sued. Not a good look. Lawsuits are mostly public documents, right? [/quote]

NP and while the lawsuit will be public so will the fact that the case was dismissed and most people are not going to go down to the courthouse to pull the complaint and read through it.  Easy to chalk it up as a family dispute and since the case was dismissed he can say that he was the party in the right.[/quote]

PP to whom you're responding. It doesn't take going down to a courthouse and pulling documents for word to get around in someone's social circle. And even if the suit gets dismissed, that does not mean folks won't speculate about why it was filed in the first place. Most people who've watched any TV or read any courtroom novels are smart enough to know that a dismissal does not necessarily mean the defendant was "in the right," only that the legalities didn't line up for the case to go forward. OP says the older brother wants to keep up a certain reputation. He should know that even a dismissed lawsuit against him would gin up talk and speculation about him, not just about his hapless brother. And older brother deserves all the talk, speculation, gossip and side-eye he gets. [/quote]

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