Five sisters handed just £50 each from their grandfather’s £500,000 fortune because he was upset they didn’t visit him insist he would have wanted to leave them more – as they are hit with a £220,000 legal bill

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3 thoughts on “Five sisters handed just £50 each from their grandfather’s £500,000 fortune because he was upset they didn’t visit him insist he would have wanted to leave them more – as they are hit with a £220,000 legal bill

  1. What is interesting is the tone of the reporting. Now imagine grandsons trying to overturn the will of their Grandmother, when she had left her estate to her remaining offspring. No one would entertain the claim of the Grandsons for a minute, nor be surprised that the Judgement took a dim view of their launching such a vexatious challenge. Because it would be an expectation that the grandsons make their own way in the world as is the expectation for males. As I recall from a previous report both the son and daughter had supported their father in his declining years, not the case from his daughter in law. At the root of the “surprise” is our presumption that females are entitled to financial support, gifts, favours just because they are female. It is perhaps unsurprising that these five acted entitled when in reality its a common message in our society. Hypergamy, welfare benefits, “alimony”, WASPI women, maternity leave, bursaries for Colleges and Universities, quotas (illegal but widespread) ….. all built on this notion that there is nothing more normal in our society than protecting women from facing a reality of making their own way in the world. This even plays out in more subtle ways, for instance in decisions about taking the “loans” for University. For young men appear to take the loan as a load they will have to shoulder, while to young women its something that “someone else” will be helping with or sorting out sometime in the future (partner, tax payer) in effect more of a gift. Years ago I realised that women make a constant noise about being “independant” “paying my way” ” paying bills” “paying the mortgage” because they see it as a remarkable imposition to have to do these things, yet men will not refer to these in this way, if at all, because it is simply what they expect to do. There is literally no one going to listen to a monologue about how heroic it is to be paying the mortgage, gas bill, car tax etc. Though a tip about a better bargain or complaint about a sharp price rise might get brief attention.

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