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To be furious and devastated to be told by parents they are giving their business and family home to loser brother?

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brightongirldownunder · 13/06/2008 18:15

I've just had a call from my mum to tell me this and I'm totally broken. I can cope with the business but the family home? True they need to move as its far too big for them, but to have made the decision without even asking my opinion? I'm the eldest and my brother has always been a scrounger. he's never had an honest job in his life and it cripples me that he, his wife and 2 kids will be calling that home theirs. My mum insists they have not been given it for good but knowing my brother he will find a way around this. The saddest thing is that I've always been there for parents and was hoping that we may have had the chance to rent the house from them if we move back to the UK next year as our house in Brighton far too small now we have DD. There is absolutely no way I can ever go back to family home with brother and family in it. God I'm so upset... Am I being a spoilt brat (at 36?) Please someone tell me this isn't normal for parents to do this?

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brightongirldownunder · 13/06/2008 18:38

I know - its eating away at me. Its just that he already has a huge house and is obviously selling it so that they can have even more money and live an even more indulgient lifestyle. Parents also pay for their kids to go to private school. Suppose I am jealous, but surely anyone would be. we moved to Sydney in March and are finding it really hard financially. Living in a small house away from family only makes things worse...

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QuintessentialShadows · 13/06/2008 18:37

Is it actually legal even to give everything to ONE child and not the other?

sarah293 · 13/06/2008 18:37

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duchesse · 13/06/2008 18:33

Sounds a little unbalanced, but people can be very strange about inheritance. One of my friends was left nothing by the grandfather who left her sister a £150000 house, on the grounds that older more responsible sister was doing fine and was well off and living down south - on one academic wage and in a 2 bed terraced house; I don't think so...- , while feckless younger sister was not even attempting to do better. Tis odd, particularly if they have not even attempted to explain their decision to you. Afraid you're going to have to try to draw a line under it all though, or it will eat away at you.

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