Note from MNHQ: please note OP's post @ 19.08 on 22 Jan. The OP has admitted this is a reverse but we are leaving this thread up so they continue to receive advice. Inheritance money - AIBU to be p*ssed off?

Your FIL should consider the money gone because theEx W#2 could have spent all the money in the 5-6 years post divorce then no one would have inherited anything.

He is fortunate the ExW was prudent and left 50% which will be used on the grandchildren.

You first post states that the ex wife died before the son/ father of the children?

The daughter was the only surviving child of ex-wife #2. To answer another question, she is married so when she dies (which will be fairly soon) her husband will inherit. Why should her husband inherit wealth created by my FIL?

Only surviving child would only be entitled to 100% if the deceased child had no descendants. BUT HE DID and so they inherit in his place.

Who originally earned/ created the wealth is irrelevant. The fact at law is that your FIL no longer has any right to it and the current owner can leave to whomsoever they wish (or if no will, to whoever is entitled under the intestacy rules). FIL's ownership has gone forever, he needs to accept that. He may be bitter about the divorce award but that is irrelevant.

OP, have you looked at this link?

www.gov.uk/inherits-someone-dies-without-will

The daughter does not inherit all just because she was the only surviving child. Half belongs to the children.

She may have been the administrator of the estate, but that is not the same as the sole beneficiary.

Why did he THINK he would inherit ALL of his ex wife's money?!

If he had died first would you be expecting his ex wife to get all his money and your DH be bypassed?

They were married for 25 years and your implying that she contributed NOTHING to his life.

A woman is dying a slow painful death. Give her some fucking dignity "when she dies which should be pretty soon her husband will inherit FILs money." I'm fucking aghast at that. 1. It's not his money. 2. Oh fucking lucky him. When his wife finally loses her battle with cancer he'll be flush. * *

How old are the grandkids? * *

I think OP just means all the money went to her and she then distributed it accordingly. 50% to her brothers children and 50% to herself.

That woman called him dad. He helped raise her. They are family.

Now she is dieing. And all he wants is money, which does not belong to him. Disgusting. Him and you and your husband. The lot of you are disgusting.

He's got half of it. That's for the kids. The rest isnt his, in any way, shape or form. You should be deeply ashamed of your grabby little self.

I hope she and her husband use the money give themselves a wonderful final few weeks together and then he uses what is left to put his life back together when she is gone.

I actually don't think FIL is entitled to the 50% he has taken from the boys.

I wonder if you and your DH will be giving them their inheritance when FIL dies.

Sorry typos, it should have said:

The sister will have had to declare that her deceased brother had no children to gain 100%.

whatever happened it would appear that the ex wife grandchildren’s legal rights are not being protected.

Your FIL needs to understand that he has not received “his” money back.

he has the children’s share of their grandmother’s estate.

There are legal obligations to being a trustee for minors

I imagine she was just the admin, the only adult doing the paperwork. I don't think she technically inherited 100%.

I completely agree, obviously FIL has taken them in otherwise they'd have ended up in care. Although OP hasn't said the ages. But they're entitled, legally, to their money. But there's no one to make sure they do, their only living relative is dying. Just really sucks for them.

Because it’s up to her what she does with her mother’s money…

You all need to get out of the mindset of it being his money. It stopped being his money years ago. It was his ex wife’s money.

Let's get this right.
Your parents divorce, split assets.
2nd wife divorce, split assets.
2nd wife dies, her DD split the assets 50/50 with your dad.
So the 2nd wife had no will?
The grandchild can sue for 25% of the 2nd wife's assets.
Unless the 50% your Dad has is actually the children's, in which case he can get In trouble if he spends it the Grandchildren could sue him for it All when he dies or before if they want to.

Do you understand now that those two children are supposed to get that money? It is the law. FIL and daughter can get into trouble for doing what they have done.

It was not HIS wealth, if was THEIR wealth. you intense approach that you FIL is entitled to his ex wife’s money I assume is because you are waiting to cash in when he dies.

I don’t understand how the children were passed over for the inheritance in the first place as when their grandmother died her son and daughter should have inherited it 50:50. Even though probate hasn’t been sorted 50% was legally his, therefore when he later died his share should have gone to his children. I suspect there was a legal issue raised about this and so why their aunt eventually passed it to them.

but it is their money not FIL and he lost that in the divorce so he has no entitlement to it. He also is not entitled to the other 50%. That money belonged to his ex and therefore now her daughter

YABU

He just thought that her daughter would return the wealth that was generated by him in the first place.

Why? On what basis?
And why are you "pissed off about it"?

Someone ought to report the lot of you to the Probate Office.

It wasn’t generated by him.

It was generated during a period that he was married. THEY generated it as they were legally and financially tied. It was always half his wife’s. The fact that he can’t see that, says he should not be in charge of any money for these kids.

That 50% was awarded to the ex wife in the divorce. It is not his money now. It is his step daughters and his grandchildren’s money.

Why should his step daughter not inherit anything from her mother?

Your language gives you away.

They were children who called him Dad. He was close enough that the son lived with him. He’s close enough that he cares for his grandchildren without the biological link.

Yet shes “her daughter”.

Did your FIL have such contempt for the girl that had called him Dad for 30 years until you and your DH started shit stirring?

Then I absolutely think the money needs putting away for them, they're well on their way to independence, particularly the eldest, he's at the age of getting a part time job, he'll be at uni/college soon. It could put them on the property ladder or support them through uni. They're going to need all they can get without any parental support in their adult lives.

You need to stop calling it "wealth generated by FIL." It is her mother's money. Does 25 years of her life account for nothing to you?

And social services.

Thos poor kids have lost both their parents, their grandmother and will lose their aunt yet their “family” are trying to steal their money.

Deluded grabby bastard is all I can say. He deserves nothing back and is very lucky to have been given anything.