This is a last-ditch attempt to ask if anyone on here can help me stop being “robbed of my inheritance”. Those are someone else’s words, because this relates to the inheritance from my beloved late grandfather and I feel grateful for his gift to me, whatever it ends up being “worth”. However, I also feel the situation is very unfair and if there were anything legal I could do to change it, I would. I was severely abused my father throughout childhood, within a paedophile ring in England. I reported this to the police and went through various processes seeking justice, but the outcome was that my father was not convicted (nor even as yet put on trial). My mother died in 2015 at a relatively young age of cancer and I was estranged from her as well as my father when she died. The one person who stood by me was my maternal grandfather, and, over the past ten years, I spent a bit of time with him and did all I could to help with his care even though I now live abroad. At the end of last year, my grandfather died, and left, in his Will, half of everything he owned to me and half to my sister. My father, i.e. the son-in-law, then claimed he owned half of my grandfather’s house and therefore what would pass to me would be one quarter. I should add that my grandfather’s house was a 1940s council house, not huge, but in a lovely spot and full of very happy memories for me in my otherwise very difficult childhood. It was a blessing that my DCs could get to know their great-grandfather. I did engage lawyers at this point to dispute what my father was saying. My grandfather had told me very soon after my mother’s death (a matter of weeks) that my father had gone into the house seeking to make radical changes and saying he now owned half. My grandfather had obviously tried to stand up for himself as he told me he had said to my grandfather: “Well, you won’t throw me out”. After that, there were various attempts by my father to try to get grandfather into a home with him telling the neighbours, for example, not to visit to help him daily as they did “so that social services gets the true picture”. Thankfully my grandfather held on to his home and only spent a few weeks in hospital before the end, his mind was sharp too. I understood my grandfather had sought legal advice upon my father’s threats and had thought that my father did not own half, but that part is unclear, and what the records show is that, apparently very shortly before her death, my mother passed her half in her Will to my father with no conditions attached. My grandfather had been a very fair man, and had owned half and his wife had owned half, it was upon her death that my mother had inherited the half-share in the house. From a legal point of view, it does seem that the register is clear and my mum’s title passed to my father upon her death. There are two issues I am not sure of: my mother in her Will did not refer to the house at all. She left a money amount (quite small, but significant) to me and the same to my sister, for which I was very grateful as we hadn’t been able to reconcile in life due to her denial of the abuse and sticking with my father. I always believe she was too afraid for her life to oppose herself to my father and she had tried to kill herself on several occasions in my childhood, I think cancer ended up being her way out, though of course others die of cancer without those circumstances. I only had one conversation with her over the past 16 years since the estrangement, and that was a few months’ only before her terminal diagnosis to let her know I forgave her everything and was happy now with children of my own, though I didn’t want any relationship with her. I don’t know if my mother was aware she owned half the house as the change to the land register formally notified was after her death, presumably by my father. Would it make a legal difference if she didn’t know what she owned that she didn’t leave part of the house to me or my sister? Secondly, my father is an intensely controlling man as abusers are. I don’t doubt there could have been coercion involved in terms of my mother writing her Will giving her share of the house to him, as it had been an unspoken rule in the family for years and years that the house would pass to me and my sister on death of grandparents or mother. I heard there was a new law about coercion in terms of financial control and I wonder if I could use it somehow. I feel so angry because, in material goods alone, the man who abused me so badly (my father) is so well-off whereas I have always struggled financially, largely due to mental health problems, and I know my grandfather had said explicitly that he didn’t intend my father to have anything – he told me this, calling my father “mercenary”. Nonetheless, he made my father Executor of his Will but I think he did this because he knew my father would interfere whoever was Executor (and the alternatives would have been me or my younger sister). Thanks for any help, it is a sad situation.