My parents bought their first home when they were 18 when my older brother was just born. They sold it and moved a year later because the neighbors were supposedly horrible people and police would not do anything. They then bought a nice house in the next state over and my mom has lived there since her death on Thanksgiving last year due to COVID. She was only 62. My dad had already died 14 years prior unexpectedly.
My dad died without life insurance so my mom got no money from him when he died. She used all his savings to pay for the cheapest funeral. My mom died without life insurance as well. She had cashed out her 401k years prior to pay off her mortgage and pay off her property taxes. She had stopped paying her property taxes at one point because they went up a ridiculous price (8% a year according to Zillow) and her salary stayed the same. Her house was almost foreclosed on when she was 56.
Anyways, the house was paid off when she died and she only had $297 in credit card debt along with a car lease. $23,000 car with a $220/mo lease price.
My older brother is less than pleasant to deal with. We have been no contact for years because he is a textbook narcissist. He has been dealing with arrangements for my mother. He has planned her funeral for sometime in the Spring when lockdown loosens, but will not give me much details. I can see he has listed our mother's house for sale and when I tried to contact him about this he said that he would not be splitting the sale of the house money 50/50. This seems so unfair. He said because he is older that he gets to keep it all. My mother's will does not state who gets the home. It only states what possessions we get like china, knick-knacks, etc.
Does he have the right to keep all the money from the sale if the will doesn't state? My mother died in CT. My brother lives in MA and I live abroad.
Submitted February 11, 2021 at 04:55AM by itsmeitsgeorgep https://ift.tt/3p8VXRx
