Greedy 37-year-old son secretly dips into mother's $700k inheritance after she gave him a house, mother cuts him out of the inheritance entirely as a result: ‘He kept using his children as an excuse’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
May 25, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

When you're on the path to getting over $50k in inheritance money along with a home, would you be begging for more? I guess your answer depends heavily on what your siblings, if any, receive as well. That's the funny thing about wills and inheritances—they tend to single people out. At the end of the day, you can't argue with someone who intended for their assets to be divided whichever way they saw fit. If you didn't get a better cut of the sum, it's likely because the late loved one didn't want you to…

Which we have to respect regardless of our personal feelings. What we don't do is steal money from others because we're dissatisfied with the hunk of cash that we received. Especially if that person is our mother. The son in this next story actively dips into his mother's $700k inheritance to fund home renovations on the house his mother graciously gave to him (which was also a part of her inheritance). Even still, she turned the other cheek until he revealed his greedy ways, and Mom had to cut him out for good. Scroll to read the whole story below.

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  • "My brother wants his cut of inheritance before my mom d*es"

    My grandfather did recently leaving his 3 kids (my mom, aunt and uncle) a huge stack of unorganized inheritance. To give you an idea of how annoyingly
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  • tedious and stressful the whole thing was to deal with- a few of my aunts and uncles are already writing up their own wills so their children (my cousins) don't have to fight over anything like how the
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  • 5 are now. He was loaded but with how scattered around his assets were it was taking a while to get everything in order so what ended up happening is they're starting with whatever homes
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  • My mother didn't get much at first but two of my older brothers convinced her siblings to give her at least $700K in cash and two of his old run down houses (the one
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  • we're currently living in and another one nearby) since there was more to be processed anyway and my mom was loosing money faster than she could make.
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  • Eldest brother (who we'll call Archie (37M)) is an unemployed overconfident narcissistic piece of sh no one likes, he has a kid and his wife is pregnant. Second is his twin (Ronnie (37M)) he
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  • grew up to be a more responsible version of Archie, he recently got married and works a really well paying job as a teacher like our grandfather. I have another brother (19M) but he isn't important as he's off at collage abroad.
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  • Archie was my grandfather's favorite grandson because he was the smartest growing up but Archie himself only ever spent time with him as a way to get cash for whatever the h I he
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  • does all day. When he realized he didn't leave a will he scrambled to get his hands on anything he could, thus playing lawyer with my moms siblings and getting her two properties and money.
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  • This is where it gets blurry on my end since I was never allowed to be a part of family meetings but from what I know from context clues is- Archie somehow
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  • convinced my mom to give him one of the houses (the one we weren't living in) since "I was like grampa's son, I deserve something". Mom's siblings were calling bulls and my Aunt
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  • (lawyer) didn't want him to get anything or involve him in the meetings at all but he kept weaseling his way in. My mother just tired from everything at that
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  • point agreed to give him the property as long as he paid for the restoration himself, he agreed and everyone was happy.
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  • Archie got the house but hired the SAME contractor my mom hired to work on her house. I have no idea why the contractor agreed to work both jobs at the
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  • same time despite the obvious lack of man power because what ended up happening was Archie would go to "his" house at 12:00PM and watch the guys
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  • work making sure thy do their jobs and leave at around 4:00PM and only THEN would they come work on my mom's house. With how things were going the deadline kept drawing closer and closer and the house was still a leaky poorly ventilated mess.
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  • Ronnie on the other hand had a whole business plan with my mom's $700K but considering the plan was random stock trading he'd already lost a lot of money on my mom didn't wanna do it, he pushed for a few months but each time my mom turned him down.
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  • Around two weeks later- turns out Archie was taking money out of the $700K in my mom's bank account, this was the final straw, she took the house back from him and kicked him out,
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  • thankfully Aunt wasn't done processing the property transfer docs yet so it was easy for her to just reverse the whole thing, Archie came back a few times to
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  • demand his "rightful share" back, it got so bad to the point I had to step in and stop the guy from physically attacking my mother, he never landed a hit but my mom was still scared of him.
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  • Yesterday both Ronnie and Archie came over as a final attempt as salvaging what they could after Archie's outbursts and they came to an agreement- Archie, Ronnie, college bro and me are all getting
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  • $60K, my mom thought it would be easier to just give all of us money so no one got jealous of anyone else but if anyone wanted any more money they'd have to wait until she kicked the bucket.
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  • Archie was still mad about not getting anything so demanded he get his cut of inheritance right then and there- at this point Ronnie just wanted to go home and I was trying to study for
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  • entrance exams though his yelling and fake crying to my mother, he kept using his children as an excuse as to why he needed the money (but couldn't work for it apparently), he kept
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  • yelling about how he wished mom would drop de d right there so he'd get his money and Ronnie dragged him out of the house before he could do any real damage.
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  • Now my mom is cutting Archie out of the will with no chances of him getting back in.
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