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Old 08-23-2018, 02:37 PM   #32398
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
In this case, it's not about right or wrong any more; it probably isn't about the money even. Your uncle just wants to win the court case, even if he spends every single penny he has (and the inheritance), or even stick himself into debt for 25 or 50K or so, so he can say, at the end: "But I did win." That the win is Pyrrhic victory, doesn't even matter.

I don't think he will quit until one judge or another makes him do so by making a final ruling an declaring the ruling cannot be appealed to. (Somehow; I don't know. I didn't study law.)
You're right that he doesn't want to lose. To illustrate:

Spoiler:
He had a conflict with a gardener, who didn't do the work he was contracted for as my uncle wanted him to, and my uncle refused to pay him the last installment. At one point a statue in my uncle and his girlfriend's front garden was broken. A little while later the girlfriends car was set alight, but my uncle kept refusing to pay. His girlfriend was so scared that she paid off the man. So he broke up with her.


However, he doesn't want to spend any money on it. He's still trying to get my grandmother's estate to pay his lawyer's fees (which my father and aunt keep refusing). It was also obvious that his lawyer didn't prepare for the last meeting at court, our lawyer spend a week reading up on it. And this Letter of Grievances was obviously (mostly) written by my uncle. Unsurprisingly one of his demands in the Letter is that my father pays all his legal costs. We know he hasn't got much money himself

During the first court hearing the judge made everyone have a meeting, in which my uncle literally said that he just doesn't want my father to get the house (in Dutch: "ik gun het mijn broer niet"). We're also fairly certain why he doesn't want my father to have it (mostly jealousy plus hating his parents for not being rich and giving him everything he wanted).

We've heard our lawyer got back from vacation today, so I expect her to give my father a call tomorrow, if not then on Monday.
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