Anonymous
03/01/2015 11:36
Subject: Forgot MIL's birthday; they're disinheriting us
Gosh, I do NOT respond well to threats - makes me contrary.
Hopefully OP did not knuckle under, but got her ILs checked for dementia and/or undue influence.
Anonymous
03/01/2015 11:22
Subject: Re:Forgot MIL's birthday; they're disinheriting us
Resurrecting this old thread and wondering if OP is reading DCUM and has an update on her IL's
Anonymous
11/01/2013 01:00
Subject: Re:Forgot MIL's birthday; they're disinheriting us
Anonymous wrote:Sounds like money is their only leverage, which is depressing. If he is their only child, who else would get their money/estate after they die? Next of kin is standard. Unless they leave it all to a specific organization or specifically rewrite the will to leave everything to someone else.
Question: when one of them dies, who will take care of the other one? Have they made provisions for this? Or do they expect you to do it, even after their terrible treatment of you?
I've seen this exact scenario play out. They leave their money to the grandchildren, deliberately skipping over their child(ren) out of spite. The child(ren) come to their aid when they fall ill or become unable to care for themselves only to find out that they were disinherited over an earlier spat and the parent(s) never bothered to update their will.