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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Can't remember everything in the entire thread about this stuff... Is that man someone you call "Uncle" (in my family it's normal for kids to just call distantly related family members 'aunt' and 'uncle'), or is he your father's or mother's brother, so a 'real' uncle?
If so, and he's trying to sell a house from under your father/mother, which he uses to run a business and provide for his family, it's hard for me to understand that a brother would try to do something like that. In my eyes, that's genuinely evil (and greedy).
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Fortunately, my mother has a detailed will (drawn up last year), and my father basically has only two things: a house, and a bank account, and in his will, it's stated that they should be split up between me and my sister, with partners (if any) not getting a share, even if married in... uh...
I don't know the English word. In Dutch, it's called "gemeenschap van goederen", which means that you own everything your partner owns (including riches, debt, and inheritances). So if I inherit half my father's house, half of that would be property of my wife, if not married with marriage conditions, and my father's will prevents that.
I don't care for anything that is in my father's house. Apart from the couch, which might fetch €1000 if sold, there's nothing there of any value to me. My sister can have anything she wants.
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Not sure the word, but in the US, that would just mean it would be split equally between my brother and I. The spouses just don't get anything but if we put the money in a joint account, the spouses could use it.