Woman tells SIL her kids from a previous marriage will not benefit from their family money and only her brother's bio kids will, SIL denies prenuptial agreement proposal: ‘She is very manipulative’

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Apr 26, 2025 8:00 PM EDT

When you come from a family with wealth and assets, you always have to keep one eye on the lookout for anyone who might use the pathway to your heart as a means to make out like a bandit financially. Of course, we'd like to think that all love is real all of the time, but there are many folks in this world waiting to manipulate and climb their way to the top by any means necessary.

This is not to say that the sister-in-law in this next story is doing so, but it is quite a bit fishy that she is expecting her fiancé's inheritance to be shared with kids she had from a previous marriage. Her refusal to sign a prenuptial agreement speaks for itself, so the fiancé's sister decides to tell the SIL off. Like I mentioned prior, protect your wealth by any means necessary—even if that includes making a future in-law a bit uncomfortable.

Finding ways to leave a comfortable life behind for your children is definitely difficult, sure, but looking to benefit from others' wealth when they do not feel comfortable sharing it is an entirely different beast. Scroll to read the entire story.

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  • Easter Sunday is for talking about prenuptial agreements, apparently. Instead of speaking privately with her fiancé, the SIL decides to speak about it during their Easter get-together. Well, she should've realized that was a grave mistake once the fiancé's sister stepped in with a piece of her mind.

  • "She said we are greedy and cruel to [her] kids and I snapped."
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  • "AITA for explaining to my future SIL why her kids will never receive anything from us?"

    I (27F) have a brother (33M) who has been dating his girlfriend Sarah for 2 years and he proposed a couple of moths ago. Sarah has 2 kids from her previous relationship 8M & 6F. I
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  • would say that my parents and I are not very close to Sarah and her kids but we are cordial and never had any problems before.
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  • My partner, I, bro and Sarah attended the Easter dinner at my parents and that's when the drama happened. Sarah's kids were at their father's so Sarah used this celebration to confront
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  • us about my brother requesting a prenup. Basically my brother explained to her that he expects them to sign a prenup and that only his biological kids will have the right to inherit anything from
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  • our family assests. This is something that we as a family discussed before and we all agree that only our children should receive assests or money from our inheritance. My brother
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  • is free to pay whatever he wants for his stepchildren out of his own money, but my children and his bio children will never have to share anything that our family has with them.
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  • Sarah claimed that we are being unfair and that we are treating her and her kids like some strangers instead of embracing them like family. She said that the normal and decent thing to do
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  • was for us to see her kids like my brother's kids who should have equal rights to any children they may have together. I told her sure, after she gets married to my brother she will become our
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  • in law and her kids will be my brother's stepchildren but this does not mean we have to share anything with them. I asked her, will my future kids receive anything from her parents or from
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  • their bio father's parents? She said no obviously so I asked her than why would her kids be entitled to receive anything from us? Sarah said because they will be our family so I told her that we have plenty of cousins that are also family but I don't go around wishing to share my inheritance with them.
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  • There was a lot more back and forth between us and Sarah was not letting this go. My brother asked her to stop because we were there to celebrate Easter, not to have this kind of
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  • conversation but she kept on going saying we need to clarify it once and for all. I told her from where we stand everything is clear and it is only her who has a problem. She said we are greedy and cruel to some kids and I snapped. I told her to deal with it.
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  • She is free to work her a off and gather assets to leave to her children but we will never divide anything outside of our family and she should not expect her children to be our problem or burden to finance.
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  • I honestly feel she is very manipulative and is using my brother for what she and her kids can get from him but that's my brother's problem to decide if this is the kind of partner he wants. I just want to know if I was too blunt in telling her the truth.
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  • excel_pager_420 NTA But stay out of it now. You were clear that why inheritance would not be shared and Sarah didn't have an answer as to why their kids bio Dad wouldn't share the inheritance with your kids. Refuse to engage if she tries again.
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