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Originally Posted by stagpanther
My brother destroyed our family by manipulating my mother and got her to change the will when she was well into dementia and neither myself or my sister knew anything about it until right before she passed. Her original 3 page will more or less split everything 3 ways; but my brother had her add a simple one sentence addendum that gave him 3/4 of her entire estate, my sister nothing at all, and 1/4 to me. He added extra spice to it by convincing our mother "we deserved it." He also got her to appoint him executer and gave him power of attorney over all of her affairs. When I got wind of all this I hired lawyers and they told me flat out that unless some other binding document exists that is also properly witnessed and notarized--my chances were not good. Once he secured all the money and the probate settled I never heard from him again.
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Perfect example. My uncle did the same thin to my grandfather, essentially taking advantage of my grandfather's dementia to write my mother and my aunt out of their father's will. Another uncle tried the same thing when my father died.
I haven't had any contact with my brother for over ten years because of similar shenanigans.
I'm pretty much of the opinion that every family has one such creature in each generation.