Do you stand to make a good inheritance ?

Shiraz 4.99 · 21-05-2014 02:05PM #1

Nothing tears Irish siblings apart quicker than rows over the family inheritance.
Deathbed wills, writing people out, years in the courts, it's almost an Irish tradition.

Were the good lord to come & take both sets of parents now myself & wife would stand to inherit:
(1) 1/4 of a detached home in a midlands town.
(2) 1/4 of a one bed apartment in Lanzarotte.
(3) 1/2 of a large mobile home site in Wexford, with 2 mobiles.

Yes of course, you've lost your parents, our thoughts at this time are with . . . . em ourselves for this example but put that grim reality to one side.

What, dear forum, do you stand to inherit ?

Far too many "I love mammy too much" responses.
Please open your own "I love my mammy & never want to lose her" thread.
Tell me about the mullah, nothing else

21-05-2014 02:05PM

I haven't a fcuking clue and I'd rather keep my family if I could

The One Doctor · 21-05-2014 02:06PM

You really love your parents' money, don't you? Talking about grubbing. And crowing about it on a public forum? Nasty.

Personally I'd rather my parents use their money for whatever they want.

jimgoose · 21-05-2014 02:06PM

No no, curse myself, Maggie - for cursing my mother to Hell to get the Field.

AdolfHipster · 21-05-2014 02:07PM

A handful of lint and peanut butter smeared on a playing card.

Alf. A. Male · 21-05-2014 02:08PM

I stand to inherit nothing. My family is split into rival gangs by two wills and I asked to be written out of the only will I would have been in. I'll make my own money and have some chance of speaking to my relatives in the future thanks.

caustic 1 · 21-05-2014 02:11PM

I would rather be homeless than fight with anyone over land or bricks. Rather sad scrapping for scraps. No good can ever come out of tearing each other apart.

OU812 · 21-05-2014 02:12PM

Have a friend who'll inherit a property portfolio worth approx €60m (or 25% of it, at least) as well as cash, jewlery & a very successful business.

No idea what's coming to me & no interest in collecting anytime soon.

My own kids will be quite comfortable with insurance etc. Especially if there's joint catastrophe but likewise no rush for them to get it.

Maximus Alexander · 21-05-2014 02:12PM

I don't know and, to be honest, I don't care. I'd rather both my parents lived to be 100 and sold all their worldly possessions, blowing the proceeds on travelling the globe (or whatever makes them happy) before they died.

Tilly · 21-05-2014 02:13PM

I have no idea and couldnt give a flying fúck tbh. Having lost one parent already, i'd rather keep my Mam than have to burry her and think about what i've been "left". It's not going to bring her back when she goes!

jamo2oo9 · 21-05-2014 02:13PM

Only a quarter of the house we live in at the moment

Split between 3 others.

Daith · 21-05-2014 02:15PM

Probably 1/4 of the family house and my aunts house. Other then that I hope they spend every penny on themselves.

hfallada · 21-05-2014 02:15PM

I hate the Irish issue with death. Everyone is a **** when they are living, but a saint when they are death.

I dont understand when people are alive, that the will can be disgusted in a rational manner. People are certainly going to die, be rational and hammer out a will that seems fair to everyone before the person dies.

phasers · 21-05-2014 02:15PM

The idea of wills and inheritances kind of makes me sick, I told my parents to sell their house and **** off to Spain when they get old.

Tilly · 21-05-2014 02:15PM

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

Only a quarter of the house we live in at the moment Split between 3 others.

Only?

21-05-2014 02:18PM

Tilly wrote: »

Only?

I think my whole family should give up their lives and hobbies and just work and buy me houses for myself
What else are they there for?!

bee06 · 21-05-2014 02:18PM

That's up to my parents and I don't care if they leave me nothing.

grizzly · 21-05-2014 02:19PM

I'll be set for life once I get my inheritance *rubs hands*

A distant relative left me a diamond mine in Africa. Just have to send off some bank details first to claim it.

jimgoose · 21-05-2014 02:20PM

hfallada wrote: »

I hate the Irish issue with death. Everyone is a **** when they are living, but a saint when they are death.

I dont understand when people are alive, that the will can be disgusted in a rational manner. People are certainly going to die, be rational and hammer out a will that seems fair to everyone before the person dies.

There's nothing more disgusting on this Earth than a load of po-faced vultures skulking around an elderly relative "taking care of terribly important serious business". :mad:

Tilly · 21-05-2014 02:21PM

bluewolf wrote: »

I think my whole family should give up their lives and hobbies and just work and buy me houses for myself
What else are they there for?!

Totally! Sure why would you bother buying your own house when you just have to wait for the rents to kick the bucket!

IvyTheTerrible · 21-05-2014 02:22PM

I've seen too many nasty rows over wills and inheritance (before people are even dead). I don't care about never inheriting anything. Often it brings more pain than gain.

Mr. CooL ICE · 21-05-2014 02:30PM

Dunno. The thought of my parents not being there any more frightens the sh1t out of me so much that money doesn't come into the equation

The Backwards Man · 21-05-2014 02:31PM

I got the oul lad to sign everything over to me before he started his new hobby of chasing tail on the internet.

Ain't no floozy gonna gazump me.

anncoates · 21-05-2014 02:31PM

Shiraz 4.99 wrote: »

Were the good lord to come & take both sets of parents now myself & wife would stand to inherit:
(1) 1/4 of a detached home in a midlands town.
(2) 1/4 of a one bed apartment in Lanzarotte.
(3) 1/2 of a large mobile home site in Wexford, with 2 mobiles.
?

Steady, tiger.

kylith · 21-05-2014 02:33PM

I have told my parents to flog everything, buy a motorhome and bugger off around France for their twilight years. Even if they leave us the house the family is so big that we'd all only come away with tuppence ha'penny and an auld knife each.

Andy-Pandy · 21-05-2014 02:36PM

I'm an only child and my parents are divorced, so I'll get everything and it will be a lot. I don't want it though, it's my folks hard earned money and I hope they get to enjoy every single cent of it. I encourage them to get the most out of it. Hopefully they have many many years left to spend it all.

I'd like some of the personal momentous, my dad's old army medals and awards would be all I would love from him. His silver dagger most of all.

ScumLord · 21-05-2014 02:37PM

Ye'll get whatevers left over after the solicitors and the state take their cut.

Kiltennel · 21-05-2014 02:38PM

phasers wrote: »

The idea of wills and inheritances kind of makes me sick, I told my parents to sell their house and **** off to Spain when they get old.

It makes me sick some people feel they're entitled to their parents' estate and their parents must pass it on. When my parents go I stand to inherit half an estate worth several million. I don't want it, I want to be entirely responsible for my own success in the future. On the other hand, I have several friends who are of the belief that their parents must preserve their estate so they can pass it on to them in the inheritance. Sickeningly selfish view.

anto9 · 21-05-2014 02:40PM

I got mine already .A house in central Dublin during the boom .Hence i now live in Thailand full time ,and have no intention of returning to Ireland .(except for Holidays ).I am now married to a Thai and have a business over here .Happy days .

Lyaiera · 21-05-2014 02:40PM

My mother promised she'd give me something if I look after her in her old age and come to visit. I'd be happy with a cup of coffee and some snazzy cookies.

bmwguy · 21-05-2014 02:40PM

My dads family are not speaking to each other because 1 son was meant to inherit the parents house because he rented it from his mother (for his employees) after his father died and bought her a downsized house with the intention of him inheriting 1st house. His mother is still alive (95 years old now) but changed her mind about the inheritance, probably due to other siblings getting involved. I'm not 100% sure of the details and who is siding with who but I know my father and my uncle (also my godfather) dont speak anymore. We used to have good family get togethers but they are all in the past now. Pity really.

And I know that in the future, my sister who has no intention of ever purchasing her own house, will try to get my parents house for herself as myself and my brother both have our own houses bought. It really does destroy families. I will probably receive 1/3 of my parents assets which is fair but I just know there will be calls from my sister to let her stay there and she is never one to want to pay her own way.

My mothers family also have an issue. She has 1 brother who never left his mothers home (drink problems and laziness) but the house has been bequeathed to him as all other siblings have their own house. After he dies, his 1 bastard child (sorry, game of thrones has me loving that word) born out of a 1 night stand that isnt really involved in the family inherits it after he inevitably drinks himself to death. Some of my cousins are already kicking up about this despite the fact that there are about 30 of us and the house is only worth about 250k. Not worth fighting over.

In all cases I'm staying well away from all the dramas.

Do you stand to make a good inheritance ?

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