Parents seldom discuss inheritance with their adult children. According to a survey conducted by Irwin Mitchell, only 30% of parents over the age of 55 have talked to their children about how they will be dividing their estate. And they really ought to do it more often, since disputes and disagreements can cause a lot of headaches for the inheritors.
This man found out that his father didn’t leave him any financial assets and made his wife and three other sons the beneficiaries. So, he sold all the loans his father had taken out from him and essentially drowned his stepfamily in debt. Still, he wondered whether he was the jerk in this situation and if he could have handled it differently.
