Dad moves 75-year-old girlfriend into house kids are due to inherit, 43-year-old daughter plans to remove her after his passing: 'He laid down a huge guilt trip'

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Aug 6, 2025 9:00 AM EDT

Receiving an inheritance is one of the few upsides of going through the traumatic experience of losing a close relative, but it is not always an easy process. Even in the most straightforward of cases, there are all kinds of legal hoops to jump through just to have access to what was promised in the last will and testament.

Things only get more complex when more people than expected start getting involved in what surviving relatives believe is rightfully theirs. The battle of who gets what can become very ugly, very quickly, and occasionally, it even gets going before somebody passes. 

It is not a pleasant thing to experience from any perspective, and it is easy for it to start to feel like a lost cause. It is advisable to get ahead in these matters where possible, but that also involves a lot of tact and sensitivity in many cases.

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  • WIBTA if I made my father's girlfriend move out of my inherited house when he passes?

    My father (75M) has always told me (43F) and my siblings (44M & 48M) the house is mine in his will and I can keep it or sell it (spilt proceeds between us) and my siblings get money to make even. Everything will be divided evenly regardless of how it is done. My father moved his girlfriend (75-ish F) into the house over the last few years. She is from a different state. She has now decided to sell her home.
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  • The youngest child of one man in his 70s became concerned about being able to inherit the house her father had promised her and her siblings after he moved in his similarly aged girlfriend, and she planned to sell her property. She was concerned about not being able to sell the house and having to care for the woman if her dad passed before she did.

    As a result, she was considering an action plan wherein she would ask her to leave the property a few months after her dad's passing so she could move back closer to her own relatives. The daughter wanted to know if this was being harsh.

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  • I asked my father what does that mean when he passes and she is still there. Truthfully neither of them are in good health by any measure and both can barely get around daily and I understand how life ends. He laid down a huge guilt trip about hopefully we will let her stay there since she will "not have anywhere to go". She has family around her hometown and they have no children. She doesn't have family here to take care of her. My older siblings - 1 doesn't like her and the other has his kids
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  • They are not married and my father will not get remarried after my mother passed nearly 20 years ago. His girlfriend does not have any rights to any of the property or inheritance. WIBTA if I made her get out of "my" house, after a few months, after my father passes and send her back home? I do NOT want to become a landlord. I do NOT want to become responsible for her as she ages and gets worse because none of her family are close by.
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  • EDIT for some answers to repeat questions • My dad and her have been together 4 years. THEY ARE NOT MARRIED for everyone who keeps saying his spouse or whatever • She only moved in within the last year. • She wants to sell her house since her child no longer wants to live there.
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  • • I do not "just want the house". The house has been designated mine, when that time comes, since the day I turned 18 and could legally own it if a tragedy occurred. • Yes, I am sure there is an official legal will, and I know exactly what it states. • I would NEVER just kick her out to the street, I would give her and her family a few months to get situated and moved out. • I would sell it to her if she had the funds.
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  • People had mixed opinions about this plan.

    IntroductionSea2206 It is perfectly within your rights. You can give her a couple of months to move out. But it is also possible to have surprises about your father's will after he passes. It is possible that he bequeathed the house to his girlfriend and is afraid to tell you.
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  • desgasser Or that he left it to OP with the stipulation his girlfriend can stay in the home for as long as she wishes.
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  • Feeling-Fab-U-Lus If she sells her house she'll have money for another home close to HER family.
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  • Patient Meaning_2751 NTA, agree, but don't talk about this too much with your father or he may end up leaving the house to the gf.
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  • Fun-Yellow-6576 Be prepared, he might just put her name on the deed and not tell you.
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  • Californialslander This. Find out who still on the deed to the house. It should be a matter of public records. The GF honestly should be moved into an assisted living facility since she sold her own house, hopefully that money was put into an account that produces sone kind of annuity so she can live off of that.
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  • No-Interaction-8913 You're not but your dad kinda is if he hasn't been clear with her about this. Leaving you and her in a pretty uncomfortable spot otherwise.
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  • FairyPenguinStKilda What ever he told you, until he is de d, and at 75, he may last another 20 plus years. Not getting around too well - he is elderly, and slowing down. Not de d yet. My maternal GF d_d intestate, and everything went to his partner. He may be telling you one thing about his will, and another to his partner. I do love a hypothetical, but maybe wait until he is de d and buried before you plan your spending of his money? And he may predecease her, and leave all of his money to the
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  • nypinta This feels like a bridge you can't cross until you get to it. Because your dad has every right to change his will and leave the house to her if he so chooses. Or put in stipulations. And while your dad might have laid a guilt trip on you, you have no idea if she would even want to stay there or not. So you're just borrowing trouble. If the will stays as you've described, while it is within your rights to do so, yeah, it would be an a hle move. You're just going to have to decide if you'r
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  • Alternative-Golf8281 The house isn't yours until he passes. His wishes have changed and he may alter his will to reflect that.
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  • TransportationLazy55 They do not need to be married for him to give her a life estate in the house, which would allow her to continue living there, which i hope he does in writing since you plan on kicking her out. In good conscience you should tell her Before she sells her house so she can go back there in ten years or whatever...
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  • Upper-Ship4925 Depending on how long she's lived there before his death she may have a right to the home as his defacto spouse. He really needs to consult a lawyer and make sure his will reflects his current situation and wishes (HIS, not OP's). The comments on this thread are utterly heartless. This woman hasn't done anything but fall in love with a man and move in with him to share their final years. If the proceeds from selling her home have contributed towards their life together then she de
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  • I hope he leaves the house to her and she wills it to whichever sibling is actually nice to her and not hovering like a vulture waiting for their father to di and wondering how soon they can have her out of the home they already consider theirs.
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  • No_Crew4919 100% this. But also kind of crappy of dad to have discussed this with so much persistence and openness for OP to really feel literally entitled to the house when there are so many possible twists and turns in life that it's impossible for someone to really know what an outcome like this will be. And if dad hasn't discussed this with his girlfriend and made legal arrangements for her in his will he's kind of the ah le to her, too. She shouldn't have sold her house without having had t
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  • Business_Loquat5658 Get a copy of the will. Many people in this world have been told they are getting an inheritance only for the will to say something very different.
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  • fast4help NTA if you and siblings plan on selling the house as soon as possible then that's your out.
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