When money is left as an inheritance, it can cause some serious family dramas - arguments can happen that would never have happened if money wasn't involved, and some people can get seriously bitter about their siblings receiving more than they do when their parents are alive.
One woman took to Reddit's 'Am I the a**hole' forum to explain that she decided to sell her house to her son because he'd 'lived with her for the past three years with his son and daughter'. He also helps her 'a lot', and he has 'invested a lot into the house labour-wise'.
She wrote: "My son has lived with me for the past three years with his son and daughter. My son helps a lot with taking care of the house and doing errands for me. I feel he has invested a lot into the house labour-wise.
"I decided to offer to sell it to him at a good deal. I can use the money to enjoy retirement a bit more, and he can build equity into his home.
"My son was very happy to buy the house. My daughter found out and is p*****. She said I am stealing inheritance from her sons and making sure everything will go to my son's kids.
"That isn't really true, because if something happens to me my assets will be split between them, including the money I made from the sale of the house. My daughter thinks I was massively unfair to her, but it's my house. Is this practically much different from selling to a stranger?"
In the comments, people defended the mother saying that it was completely her choice who she decided to sell her house to, saying that it was her daughter being unreasonable.
Someone fumed: "Not the a**hole, but your daughter is. She is burying you alive. You owe her no inheritance - if you sold the house to a stranger and spent all the money in Las Vegas, you would have every right to do this, and as you say, your assets will be split equally between them.
"The cheek to say you are STEALING the money YOU EARNED. She can go earn herself as much as she wants."
Another disagreed though, saying that the son was benefitting far more than the daughter and it wasn't nice, writing: "The original poster is well within her rights to let her son live with her rent-free, and let him buy the house at below-market value - but it absolutely is unfair to the daughter, and the daughter is well within her rights to be upset at that. The son is getting a double windfall, from their shared parent, that the daughter didn't."
Someone else waded in: "She's not stealing anything from her daughter: it's not her daughter's money or business. Parents don't owe their kids inheritance."
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