All families have some drama to them, but when it comes to inheritance, some families get pretty crazy.

What would you do if your cousin attempted to make your grandpa dislike you just so they could get extra inheritance?

That is what the young man in this story experienced, so he tricked the cousin into doing something that would ensure he got nothing from grandpa’s estate.

Check it out.

My cousin stole loads of jewelry, so I stole his inheritance

25 years ago my aunt passed away when I was a baby, leaving my two cousins who were both in their early 20’s alone to fend for themselves.

My grandparents (who were very wealthy) put a clause in their will that grandkids will receive half of their share of inheritance if a parent passes before the children reach age 30, and then the other half when my grandparents eventually passed.

What a blessing.

Both my cousins received a very sizeable inheritance coupled with the money they got from selling my aunt’s house.

The younger of the two paid off her college loans and was able to buy property, she still lives on the same plot of land.

The older sibling, blew all of his money straight out of a book of the Bible, within 6 years, he was back to living in a condo working as a police officer.

Everyone in our small family knew he had a substance issue so he was barely making ends meet with his officer salary and buying copious amounts of drugs.

The next 4 years my cousin went to rehab three times, sponsored by my grandparents.

He sobered up after getting his girlfriend, now wife, pregnant.

Absolutely wretched woman.

She saw my grandparents as a payday and essentially baby trapped my cousin thinking it was her ticket.

Within 7 years they had three kids so she is locked in tight.

Shes a nurse and with 3 kids around they always needed a little boost.

Guess who they would always ask?

You got it, my grandparents.

Being the kind spirits they are, they always lended a hand.

My father, mother, sister and I got sick of it very quickly.

My grandmother unfortunately passed away when I was 17 leaving my grandpa as the last remaining.

I was undoubtedly my grandfathers favorite among the grandkids which left a real sore spot in the mouth of my cousin and his wife.

I had two more years at home before college so I lived with my grandpa to keep him company and help take care of him.

They just wanted to get more inheritance.

My cousin and his wife HATED this, so much so that whenever they came to visit and I was not home, they would send their three gremlins into my room to destroy it (my room had double doors so it couldnt be locked).

This was the start.

The longer I lived there, the more they would mess with me.

My cousin even went as far to place one of those little mechanical noise makers in the cabinet in my room (the ones that play sounds at random intervals that make you think youre insane).

Thankfully my German shepherd would always hear it and after a week or so she finally found it.

They did this to distance me and deter me from taking care of grandpa so they could swoop in and be the heroes.

This continued until one of the “kids” “found” my gun.

By this time I was 18 and in the “possession” of a firearm.

I use quotations because my grandfather has guns, but cannot aim and shoot them anymore due to arthritis and nerve degeneration, so when I moved in, he placed all the weapons in my hands should the need of self defense arise.

But should he see them out for any reason other than cleaning, there would be hell to raise.

Being very well trained with guns and having a sense of pride in defending my home i took this responsibility very seriously.

I always kept a handgun in a locked container in my nightstand with the key on a high shelf out of reach from the gremlins.

One fateful day, I am out getting my grandfather food when I come home and my older cousin, his wife and my grandfather are staring at a gun on the table.

It was my gun that I kept in the lockbox.

IT WAS LOADED AND HAD A BULLET CHAMBERED.

I always keep a magazine in the lockbox but never loaded into the gun.

The lockbox was nowhere to be seen.

My cousin claimed one of the children “found” the gun and was playing with it.

I was 100% certain that he either found the key or broke the lockbox open to get to it and load it, as a 6 year old would not be able to reach a key I could barely grab, figure out what it was to, load my gun and chamber it.

I tried my best to explain what my cousin had said was a lie and that I never keep my firearms loaded in the house, but my cousin who is a cop, scolded me on gun safety and threatened to have me arrested if I didn’t leave and hadn’t arrested me yet “because we’re family.”

I was asked to collect my belongings and go back to my parents.

My cousin had won, or so he thought.

This is just awful.

The next day I apologized to grandpa and explained to him there was no way one of the kids could have gotten the key, he agreed with me and he apologized but he thought it best i move out until things cool down but once they do I would be welcome back home.

Our relationship was a little fractured due to disinformation provided by my cousin.

A month later, my grandfather passed of a heart attack at 86.

I was DEVASTATED.

I was just beginning to get back into rhythm with him and rebuilding the trust that was somewhat shattered.

To this day, I am still unsure of what kind of man he saw me as due to my cousin.

Immediately, my cousin and his wife began sucking up to my dad, as they had sealed payday with grandpa, it was time to move onto the uncle.

This persisted for a month or two.

I wouldn’t stand for it.

Then came time for the will.

My grandfathers lawyer read out the will to me, my father, mother and sister in our home, our two cousins would be briefed individually on their share of the estate, per my grandparents requests.

Then the miracle line in the will comes to fruition: “if anyone attempts to claim any part of the estate that is not assigned to them, they forfeit any assets they are supposed to receive and will be divided equally among the remaining family members.”

This was basically their way of saying “if you try to claim more than you’re given, you get nothing.”

My father is supposed to receive every piece of physical property (aside from two or three items he set aside for me) from my grandparents as he is the only remaining child.

The revenge

I hatched my plan.

I called my cousin and told him all of grandmas jewelry was to be donated to a charity auction.

I can’t believe the cousin would be so stupid.

Grandmas collection of gems and metals was extensive to say the least so a charity event wouldn’t care if a few pieces didn’t make it right?.

It was a lure of gargantuan proportions that my greedy cousin could not resist.

He bit right on it and headed over to my grandparents house asap, determined to snatch up as much as he could, a handful would send his kids to college.

Regardless of what I said, the jewelry was never going to go to him anyways, so his actions were purely his own since none of it was destined to be his.

Coincidentally, dad was on his way with the lawyer to My grandparents house to overlook everything, formality stuff.

According to my dads testimony, My cousin had three shoeboxes worth of grandma and grandpas jewelry piled on the kitchen counter ready for loading into his car.

That is a huge amount of jewelry.

My dad and the lawyer stood in the kitchen wondering why it was all there when my cousin walks in from my grandparents bedroom with a fourth and final shoebox.

The jig was up and he put two and two together that i set him up.

Which was true.

But there was no penalty against me for exploiting my cousins greed so he would screw himself over.

Its worth noting that between the 18 years from my aunts passing and my grandpas passing, their wealth had increased several times over, so my cousin felt “cheated” and expected to receive just as much as my sister and I, despite receiving half of his already and blowing it.

At least this other cousin is a decent person.

Throughout this whole ordeal, his younger sister (my other cousin) has not had a problem at all and is still weeping over grandpas passing like the rest of us.

However just like that, my cousin lost enough money in the course of 30 minutes that made him contemplate his sanity.

OVER GREED.

My cousins wife apparently filed for divorce a few weeks later.

We havent heard from him in nearly 6 years as he is all but disgraced now.

You can call this a fairytale ending, and on this particular part of the story it somewhat is (there was a massive lawsuit by an unknown family member involving the IRS and FBI later on) but honestly I would rather have my grandparents.

The cousin was stupid to let greed win that day.

Let’s see what the people in the comments have to say.

This person says the cousin deserved what he got.

The cousin really ruined his own opportunity.

It is sad how often families break apart due to inheritance.

This is so sad.

This person loves how the cousin was caught.

The cousin got exactly what he deserved.

He should have seen it coming.

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