Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 10292624)

I really should develop a relationship with her. Maybe I'll go visit. She started a second family that she apparently likes, so I need to figure out how to cut them out...er, integrate myself into the family.

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 10292595)

I just found out through the grapevine that my mom's mother went into assisted living a while back and sold her home for a nice seven-digit sum.

Why? Why? I come from a long and tightly held family tradition of rural poverty, and I just assumed that she followed that tradition. Out of the blue, I discover an elderly relative - a direct relative, even - with money, and she's the one person who disowned the family before I was born.

I could have been an heir! I would have made a great heir! I look so good in a smoking jacket and pipe! And now I'm just a guy whose rich grandmother dislikes him for even being born. There's no fun in that.

I kind of wish that I had been born out of wedlock so I could claim to be the bastard disowned heir of a wealthy family. That would be a cool story, much better than just being a regular disowned heir.

Originally Posted by trndobrd (Post 10293035)

In most states, regardless of whether she 'disowned' the family or not, her estate would go to the remaining living heir. How large is her second family?

Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats. (Post 10293073)

send her a christmas card

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 10293135)

She's 97, so maybe if I signed it, "Your living grandson and chosen heir," I could confuse her into including me in the will.

Originally Posted by Graystoke (Post 10293234)

Did she ever knit you a sweater?
You could wear it and send a Christmas Card with a picture of you wearing THAT SWEATER!

Originally Posted by ClevelandBronco (Post 10293292)

She's 97. He could send her a picture of himself in any sweater and convince her she knitted it.

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 10293132)

One child, one grandchild, one great-grandchild. I've never met them, so it would be easy to get the element of surprise if that's what you're thinking. But that would still leave my mother, my aunt, my uncle, and several cousins between me and the family mobile home estate in Sonoma, and I kind of like all of them.