Do you stand to make a good inheritance ?

Kiltennel wrote: »

. 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.

SO who do you want to get it instead? Do you want it to go to charity? The government? Your sibling?

It has to go somewhere so what do you want to happen to it? I don't want your families assets. I personally worked hard to keep my family's assets working so do feel somewhat entailed to it.

acon2119 wrote: »

Don't really care about inheritance, don't get me wrong it would be great to get something, but alot of the time it is Irish parents who cause the friction between their children by not treating them all as equal, i.e giving all to a son, the youngest or just a favourite child. If the parents treated all their children equal then there wouldn't be half as much trouble in Irish families as there is. I have two children myself and the way I look at it is I brought them both into the world and have and will always treat them equal

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o1s1n wrote: »

Maybe they're just pointing out that the whole concept of 'knowing what you stand to inherit' is a bit ghoulish.

This. We don't know plus we're not entitled to any of it. It's not our money.

i can't see my family being rocked too badly by the fallout, if there is one. There are three of us and there won't be much going. My parents invested heavily in us as we were growing up, putting us all through college and providing financial assistance whenever we needed to retrain / have a place to live or whatever. I don't think there was any question ever that money was going to be 'left' for us as they've allowed us to build careers so that was in lieu of inheritance. Both my parents are planning on selling their properties (they don't live together) and downsizing when the market is right so there won't be any family home to argue over, thank f**k.

It definitely affects a lot of families though, I remember reading 1 in 2 of rural irish families affected by a family feud but I don't know how that statistic was measured (ie. people being mildly irked V not speaking to a sibling for 20 odd years).


My ex (who in hindsight really was a parasite) and his siblings already seemed to be warming up for a feud despite the fact his parents were in good health at the time. The family in general were obsessed with money; complete penny-pinchers in every aspect of their lives but with a seriously impressive portfolio of property in the boom (so up to their neck in mortgages now no doubt, but we didn't know that then). As my ex was seemingly incapable of looking after himself the parents had assigned him the lion's share and used to love sayign to me "aren't you doing very well for yourself, this will be yours". This obviously pi$$ed the siblings off no end, who complained constantly to me about it and how unfair it was... couldn't really disagree either.

Another guy i lived with in a house my dad owned (as i said they supported us through college) asked me would I not be left the house and i said "well i'm sure he would sell it to me when i'm in a position to buy" and he was outraged by the notion of parents selling to their child. Actually now that i think of it, he went to his parents house and demanded 'his' land be marked down for him now as he was getting it anyway.

Some people are c*nts though, no change there.

Chattastrophe! wrote: »

Jesus that's a horrible post.

Every time I see my father, he tries to force a house deposit or the money for a car onto me. Even moreso now that I have a kid of my own. I tell him to feck off, every time.

He might have the money (I have no idea how or why, I don't care how or why) but he is f*cking riddled with cancer. I have sat by what could well have been his deathbed more times than I care to remember over the past decade.

Every day he is here is a bonus. Every day that my thirteen-year-old sister has a father in her life is a bonus - he was given his "death sentence" when she was only two years old!

Do I stand to inherit when he dies? Do you think I f*cking care one bit about that? Yuck! No!

I know what you mean and share your sentiments exactly but if your father wants you to take it you should have a think about it, nothing makes most parents happier than seeing their kids financially secure and happy and if you're happy because of something he can do it might be worth it

It must be just people on t'interweb that don't want their inheritance.
Personally I have never met anyone face to face that didn't want their share :pac:

Vito Corleone wrote: »

They're right though. The OP doesn't ask "do you love your parents" or "would you be sad if they died". For most the answer would obviously be yes.

I don't understand what people are trying to prove with their overdrawn comments.

It's a tasteless question either way. Thinking about how much you will get when another person dies isn't kosher.

I'm going to be worth exactly what I worked for myself that's it. If something is left for me grand but I would much rather Something left to me doesn't define my worth.

I was left €2000, the brother got the farm.

kowloon wrote: »

My folks have always made it clear that it's all going to the cat.

Lucky bastard :pac: