41-year-old unemployed, dependent brother demands the entire inheritance from his 28-year-old sibling after years of freeloading, igniting a family clash: ‘He’s been jobless for years and basically lived off our mom, all he did was to mooch, I snapped’

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Etai Eshet • Editor
May 19, 2025 6:00 PM EDT

The reading of a will has been the premise of countless movies and television shows, a moment of suspense, high drama, and the sudden revelation that Grandma's cat actually owned the summer house all along. In an almost cliché way, this event can tear even the closest of siblings apart, turning Sunday brunch into a scene from Succession. But that's not quite this story, because when your brother is a one-man circus of entitlement and self-pity, you don't need an unequal inheritance to spark the fireworks. Here, the will was as fair as a kindergarten teacher-split everything three ways, no tricky clauses, no secret offshore accounts, just pure, simple equity.

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  • And yet, our young man’s oldest brother manages to drag the situation into a full WWE battle royale showdown before the dust has even settled from the service flowers.

    This is the sibling who made a full-time job out of freeloading off their mother, contributed nothing but stress and medical neglect, and, in a move that really captures the spirit of “family first,” started squabbling about property division while she was still in the hospital bed, unable to speak, but, one imagines, very able to roll her eyes internally.

  • "AITAH for snapping at my brother over our mom’s inheritance?"

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  • 1 (28) got into a pretty ugly fight with my oldest brother (41) recently, and I'm still trying to figure out if I was in the wrong or just reached a breaking point.
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  • Our mom passed away last month. It's been hard. She left behind a will that split everything equally between me and my two
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  • brothers. Seemed fair. But ever since then, my oldest brother has been acting like he deserves the whole thing.
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  • East Will and Testament Last will and Testament of Jane Doe 1. Jane Doe (Testator), a resident of Mignow (City), Slayou (State), and sound mind and memory, do make. pablish and declare this Testament and revoke all previous wills and codicils made by we carry out my wishes stated in
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  • For some BG he's been jobless for years and basically lived off our mom. He didn't treat her well constantly stressed her out, ignored her emotional needs, and
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  • when she started getting sick, he refused to get her proper medical help because he didn't want to "waste" money. I can't let go of that that. Watching her health
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  • decline while he did nothing. After out father d d year's ago his in heritance was split between all four of my family members (my brothers and our mom). He'd
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  • been pestering our mom to hand over her part of the property to him since then. This has caused a lot problems in the past to the point of physical more than once.
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  • LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of [Name resident of Alaba mind and memory and over the age of e or having been lawfully married or a member of th States or a member of an auxiliary of the armed mber of the maritime service of the United ess, menace, fraud, mistake, or un to be my last Will, hereby ex de by me.
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  • The worse part was that few hours before she did, he was discussing the split of the property right in front of her at the hospital room, our mother couldn't talk but she could see and hear everything.
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  • Now that she's gone, he's saying things like deserves it but the truth is, all he did was to mooch of her and caused her distress. He didn't even help get her the
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  • treatment she needed, which was a reason for her rapid health decline. He just lived in her house and drained her of everything.
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  • After the funeral one of my relatives came to me and vouched for him, he tried to convince me to sacrifice for his sake, I was just boiling inside, we barely buried our mom and he pulls this sh on us, I said nothing that day.
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  • Last week, he started pushing hard for me to give up my share of the inheritance. He said he needed it, for what reason he didn't tell. I tried to stay calm, but the way he talked about her like she owed him everything, even in death made my blod boil.
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  • Eventually, I lost il yelled. Things went out of control. turned physical. I threw myself at him, and my other brother (38) couldn't take it either so he also
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  • joined me. It wasn't some brutal beatdown, just a few hits, but yeah, I snapped. Years of built-up resentment just poured out.
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  • I don't regret what I did, he completely disrespected our mom even now, even after everything she gave him. Please share your opinions on this matter.
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  • slowcargirlie NTA - your brother's a loser. Dont give in, your mom left that share to you. Cut contact with that useless brother, honestly
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  • Allthetea159 Tell your brother or any relative trying to get more than was left to him in a will to hire an attorney to contest the will. Everyone will shut up very quickly.
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  • Maleficent Mistake50 Do we have the same brother? My parent is still with us but I fear this is the same trajectory my other siblings and I are headed to.
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  • NTA. And tell any family member to mind their business and hand him their money instead.
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  • Reasonable-Crab4 Don't give him one dime more than he is supposed to have. Charge his arent if he's still in her home.
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