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fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2010-11-23 11:54 am

AUGH

My family has begun squabbling over my grandmother's stuff.

She's doing a lot better, by the way. There's no estate to bicker over because the woman is not dead.

/o\

My brother and I are trying to figure out a non-nasty way to get everyone to knock it off.
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[personal profile] lexin 2010-11-23 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Families, eh? Who'd have 'em?

In 1978 when my grandfather died, all his children promptly had a long dispute about the will.

I hate my family.
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[personal profile] lexin 2010-11-23 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it was the squabbling over the will which put me off my family, actually.
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[personal profile] thalia 2010-11-23 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, God, sorry. No fun.

IME, the best way, honestly, is if your grandmother decides who gets what, makes a list, and tells them all to stop. I don't know if she's up to that, though. I guess that's one advantage to Matt's mom's having so much stuff--most of his brothers' bickering was more like, "You take it. No, you take it."
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[personal profile] la_rainette 2010-11-23 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
...

How about you just forget about non-nasty and say things as they are?

As Sacha Guitry would say, regardez comme cette famille s'entend bien. On voit bien qu'elle n'a pas encore hérité.
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[personal profile] la_rainette 2010-11-23 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Good. I am sorry, Fox. This truly isn't fun.

I am glad your grandmother is better though!
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[personal profile] mecurtin 2010-11-23 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
omg. Maybe you can take comfort in the fact that this kind of behavior is something human beings have done since the dawn of time?

The family of J, one of my best friends, set my personal baseline for "how bad could it get?". The final stage in the fight over division of her grandfather's stuff was when her uncle sent her father half of the grandfather's *ashes*. I found this quite comforting when I was helping my mother & her sister divide my grandmother's things, because at least it wasn't as bad as what J went through!

yeah. Have a cookie, you'll need it.