The parents who had a bad relationship with their daughter decided to leave everything in her brother’s name. He offered part of her inheritance to her, but the woman refused. She today she came back to ask for it.
A German man has divided social networks, following telling that he will not share his parents’ inheritance with his sister, who assures that he is staying on the street.
The story started to go viral. Reddit, where he published the situation. According to his story, her sister rejected her parents’ inheritance years agobut now he’s asking for it back.
“My parents did a legal process with some lawyers to leave my sister out of her estate,” the man began.
The man said that the relationship between his parents and sister was never good and that she left home at the age of 16. He always tried to remain neutral, meeting with the woman frequently, while became a caregiver for his parents.
“My dad died of cancer 6 years ago and my mom, who had dementia, died last year. I took care of both of them until they sadly passed away,” she recounted.
Although the man acknowledges that his parents were “unfair to my sister”, he loved them.
The inheritance in question
According to the subject, who did not reveal his name, his parents hired lawyers and put the house and other things in his name when they got sick, “so that my sister would have nothing.”
“When my mother died, I offered my sister to give her half of what my parents gave me, but she refused. and said he didn’t need anything from them,” he continued.
The problem is that the money he inherited no longer exists. In addition to investing in repairs to the house -where she currently lives-, she used part of the inheritance to pay her and her parents’ debts, and start a bakery “which is still not doing well.”
A few days ago, his sister contacted him to ask for the money from the inheritance he offered her because she is in a precarious financial situation.
“I told him that I can no longer give it to him because I also have debts and I count on using the money,” he said.
“He called me and told me that his children will be homeless if I don’t give him the money. I feel bad, but I can’t help her now, I have some money from the inheritance, but as I said, I count on it to pay my own debts, “he added.
“Am I wrong for not wanting to share this money with her?” the subject asked.
the opinions
The comments came immediately. While some claimed that it was her duty to help her sister, others supported her decision.
“If you really offered it to her and she refused, you have no obligation to her now,” one user wrote.
“It was generous to offer sister money she was never entitled to… That offer is not forever,” added another.
According to a study conducted by the financial services company Ameriprise in 2017, the division of inheritances is one of the main causes of disputes between siblings, reported Newsweek.
Are debts inherited?
If the person dies, are their debts inherited? The answer is yes, because you are the heir of a person, you receive his assets as an inheritance, and also his debts.
It must be understood that debts are inherited by people who, by law and because they are a family, are entitled to receive the inheritance: spouse and children.
According to José Tomás Covacevic, General Manager of Adiosdeudas“it is necessary that when a person carries out the process of Effective Possession, they do so with the benefit of inventory”.
This allows “to differentiate the estates of the heir and the estate that is going to be inherited, so that if there are debts of the deceased person, these are paid, only with the estate that might be inherited and not with his personal estate”
Of course, if the inheritance does not cover the debts, the creditor would lose, since this inventory benefit frees the heir from responding with his assets.
On the other hand, if you do not want to inherit the debts, what you should do is reject the inheritance, but by doing this, you will also lose the assets, that is, you will not receive anything.
