Family dynamics can be a tangled web, especially when it comes to inheritance and old grudges.

When a grandmother’s death leaves only one granddaughter with the inheritance, an indignant father tries to step in and defend their other daughter’s right to a claim.

Read on for all the juicy details in this tale of favoritism, resentment, and family legacy.

AITA for expecting my daughters to share their grandma’s inheritance 50/50 regardless of the will?

I have two daughters that were my late mother-in-law’s only grandchildren, Elise (22f) and Rea (21f).

She always favored Elise because Elise wanted to follow in her footsteps and be just like her.

He claims his mother-in-law always liked Elise better.

She spent so much more time with Elise, teaching her her profession and using her connections to get her set up in her field.

When she went into care, she had to disperse her assets to pay for it.

She took yet another opportunity to favor Elise by making sure she alone got her tools and a small amount of land that she used to set up greenhouses.

After she died, it became clear what other assets were at stake.

She passed a little over a year ago, and we got a letter in the mail about a trust that she had set up about a decade ago.

There isn’t much, about $30,000.

The trust states that it’s supposed to be shared equally between her grandchildren and can only be fully dispersed when the youngest is 21.

The only two grandchildren are my daughters, Elise and Rea, and Rea just turned 21.

They dig deeper into the terms of the trust.

We asked about it, and got the answer that unfortunately, only Elise is eligible to withdraw any money from this trust.

She set up a clause that anyone who had a child before the minimum age to inherit is automatically disqualified.

It turns out, this disqualified Rea and her father isn’t happy.

In short, if one of the grandchildren has a baby before age 21, they get $0 and their portion goes to the other heirs.

Rea has a two year old son, and Elise doesn’t have kids, so according to the terms, Elise gets 100%.

I’m ticked.

His wife is indifferent, but he’s not ready to let it go.

My wife wants to just let it go and ignore that it ever existed just like the land.

I don’t. My mother-in-law never treated Rea like a real grandchild.

She never spent real time with her or gave her the same opportunities.

At the time she set this up, Elise had had to undergo a hysterectomy.

He suspects his mother-in-law had it out for Rea from the start.

She set this up so that only Rea could “fail” and she’d have an excuse to get a dig in one last time.

I swallowed the land thing because it was affected Elise’s career and there were already things to maintain that only Elise cared to, but this is too much.

I think Elise is obligated to do the right thing and split this with her sister.

Elise thinks we shouldn’t fight the will and my wife is trying to “stay neutral”.

Lots of twists and turns in this story.

Reddit had lots of opinions. Let’s dig in.

Later edits to the story proved the original left out some critical information.

This father won’t be getting any sympathy from this commenter.

The arrangement seems perfectly fair to this user.

The father can try and influence his daughter’s opinion, but he can’t force her to do something she doesn’t want to do.

It’s clear this father has crossed a line and is meddling too deep into his daughter’s affairs.

This family’s divide runs much deeper than $30,000 worth.

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