It’s an inheritance one

[Percy1234]

My elderly Uncle ( never married and no children) passed away.
In his will he left everything to me. Property and cash around $1.3 million.
My DM wants me to share equally with my 3 siblings.
DB 1 wife with MND and short life expectancy.
DS 2 labourer
DB3 tradie but in and out of work due to fluctuations in his industry.
Do I share? Do I keep it all?

Doesn't it make you think what type of family would kick off at someone because they'd demand a share of money that they had no right to.

I don't think I'd want somebody like that anyway.

If it was one of your siblings who had got the full amount and not you, how would you feel?

Or put it another way, if you just banked an amount of money you believed you had inherited, and then later on found out that you didn't actually inherit it, the person who had died didn't want you to have it, but your sibling decided to give you some of their money, how would you feel? Would you want to have had the opportunity before accepting a gift from your sibling of their inheritance to know the true situation? would you want to know it wasn't your inheritance, but a gift from your sibling?

I would feel bad to take the money thinking it was mine, without realising it wasn't really.

Before you hand anything over, your siblings should know the truth. They aren't getting money from the Uncle, but from you. That is a very different dynamic and one they should know about before they accept any of your money.

If you think not sharing will make you feel like shit forever then you're doing the right thing.

I would share some as a gesture but certainly not a third it's your money not your mums or your brothers