Sibling Rivalry Turns Nuclear When Brothers Feud Over Their Mother's Inheritance, Leaving Back-Stabbing Siblings Without a Designated Gravestone at the Family Mausoleum: '[My brothers] don't deserve to be buried next to Dad'

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Aug 21, 2024 6:00 AM EDT

These back-stabbing brothers learned that if you play dirty with the executor of your mother's will–your responsible sibling–there's a chance you're throwing away your chances of becoming an heir to the family fortune.

Money makes everyone crazy. Although we like to think that we can keep our heads on straight when it comes to inheritances, probate debates, executors, and the family will, as soon as the remaining relatives are privy to a tiny morsel of the family estate, they turn feral. Especially if you come from a family with a lot to gain after granny passes, siblings, cousins, uncles, and other remote relatives are bound to turn up to the reading of the will just to see if they scored the family cabin.

Historically, brothers already have innate territorial disputes over family land, vying for superiority over each other like boys playing King of the Hill. But the siblings in this next story turned their mother's passing into a petty battle of deception, betrayal, and an inheritance dispute that will follow them to the grave… 

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    I've taken my brother's cemetery plots. They won't know until one of them dies.
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    My mother never shared the details of her will with me or anyone in the family. When she died we all learned she had made me executor of her will. My two brothers were very upset that their little sister who has an MBA
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    and a solid family life was picked over them. Neither of them finished college and one is an invalid who hasn't left his house in years. Mom left her house to the two brothers with the instructions
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    that I sell the house valued at around $250,000 and divide the money between them. All her cash was to be divided between the heirs. Her other property was a small vacation home where her and my dead sisters ashes would be scattered. She left it to me and my dead sister's children.
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    Thirty or so years earlier one of the brothers had told her he wanted to build his own cabin so she deeded him an adjoining lot. When she died it was still an empty lot.
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    He convinced one of my nieces to sell him her share of the cabin for $1.00 and not tell any of the heirs before the paperwork was signed. The only way I found out was because he posted on Facebook
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    "I'm now a proud partial owner of my family's mountain cabin; according to my lawyer no one can keep me out of it". We aren't friends on Facebook but some mutual relatives are and they alerted me to what had happened.
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    In the state we live in even a fractional ownership allows the partial owners to enter the property anytime without restrictions. There were some very ugly emails between him and my niece when she tried to get the property back, and he
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    admitted he did this out of spite to hurt me and make sure my family and I didn't get to enjoy the property. Brother #2 had emailed my niece several times and told her he was so proud of her for selling to her uncle and he'd never seen his brother so happy.
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    Mom's will was written so that the estate would retain ownership of all property including real estate until the probate process was completed. Brother didn't understand that and thought he would have immediate
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    ownership. His lawyer didn't read the will very well and thought the same thing. The only way to get the share of the cabin away from him was for my niece to refuse her share of the inheritance. Even
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    with that it cost the $600,000 estate (including the house she left to them) roughly $30,000 in attorney fees to fight this. but we won and the cabin is safe. I don't know how much he had to pay his lawyers but it was a lot of money.
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    The situation drug on for months. The property mom had given him sits directly across from the cabin. Out of spite and anger he clear cut the property mom had given him and brought in over 100 tons of gravel so the wooded area now looks like a gravel parking lot.
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    This is directly next to the place where mom and sister's ashes are scattered. The brothers had asked for the three burial plots next to my dad, they adored and idolized him.
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    Mom is scattered at the cabin and she won't be using them. So I gave them the cemetery plot paperwork. But before probate ended I had the plots put in my name and they are legally mine now. The paperwork they have is worthless but they don't know it.
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    I didn't tell the brothers and they won't find out until one of them dies and they can't be buried next to dad. Honestly I know dad wouldn't have approved of what they did, he loved mom and would be upset her ashes are scattered next to a gravel covered
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    lot, not the woods she loved. I haven't told them what I've done. Screw them, they wasted money from her estate and made mom's resting place look horrible. They don't deserve to be buried next to dad.
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    goirish35 9 hr. ago My mother has a clause in her estate that if any sibling disputed the will, they were excluded from the will. I thought it was brilliant.
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    Zwischenzugger . 7 hr. ago I wouldn't personally do this, but the most petty revenge possible would be to tell the first dying brother about his cemetery plot on his deathbed.
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    SnooWords4839 - 9 hr. ago Good for you! Plant a bunch of trees, just inside the property line and block the view!
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    tonkatruckz369.9 hr. ago Go a step further, waste the plots on something silly. "here lies goldie the goldfish". They will notice eventually which will be hilarious.
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    WitchesAlmanac · 8 hr. ago Dude trade the burial plots for the land next to the cabin. Make sure they both know about it so Brother 2 can pressure Brother 1 if he wants to keep spiting you.
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