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Family Thing update:
Initially the verdict was delayed until mid January, iirc. Then at the end of September we got an interim verdict, to help us decide whether or not we wanted to pursue the agreement we almost had with my uncle in the summer of 2018 (no, the interim verdict was better than that agreement). Then we got a new date for the final verdict: mid December. Our lawyer already warned us that there would be high possibility that it would be delayed. But today we got an email from my aunt who had been told by her lawyer that we have won the case! The letter from court states that they agree with the interim verdict and as far as they are concerned the inheritance, what's left of it, can be divided. We haven't heard from our lawyer, she get the snail mail late in the day and when my father called her she was at court. We'll hear from her tomorrow. No word about the possibility to appeal, which my uncle still got (but it will be very expensive and that type of appeal will not look at the verdict, only if the court made mistakes).
It's weird. Now the question will be if we will set in motion the sale or if we're going to wait until the window for appeal has closed. Knowing my uncle he won't say what his decision will be until the last minute on the deadline date. We'll have to discuss it with both our lawyer and the solicitor taking care of my grandmother's estate.
TBH I wouldn't be surprised if more lawsuits will follow: my uncle still has to pay back several thousand euros into the inheritance which he used for paying his lawyer, sex dating sites and his own insurances. I expect he won't pay that back without a fight.
The news hasn't yet fully sunk in. That might take a while, I expect.
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