P.O.D. - The Matrix Reloaded [CD 1]

Artist: P.O.D.
Album: The Matrix Reloaded [CD 1]

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• Sleeping Awake

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Please Give advice to my sister regarding Grandma?

•My 92 year old Grandmother just passed away.
•She left behind two daughters, a son and grandchildren.
•She was from the depression era, and saved, saved, saved. At the time of her passing, she had between $100,000-$200,000 in CD's and accounts.
•She left a detailed will, gifting her children, grandchildren and nieces.
•My sister and Grandma enjoyed a special relationship. While all of us grandchildren were close with her, my sister contacted her more than anyone.
•My sister has not had a typical job in over a decade. She does freelance web design here and there, with lofty goals to sell a movie script to Hollywood. She says that she can’t take a “normal job” because she has to market her script during business hours to Hollywood agents etc.
•In the last five years, she has lived with me for approx. 2, rent free. She has also lived with and various boyfriends and friends etc. also rent free. The whole while, dragging my niece around with her. She is very intelligent, and pretty.
•My sister, on occasion, would borrow money from family etc. I.e. She has never completely independent but I would in no way consider her a "basement dweller in her mothers home."
•At the time of my Grandmothers passing, Grandma’s children were estranged from her for several years. While they were young, there was sexual abuse in the home. Grandma was in denial and it was more than my mother and her siblings could tolerate towards the end. However, prior to the last several years, there was a close bond between Grandma and her 3-children. My sister is aware of the dynamics.
•My Grandmother lived in the state of Washington. In Washington, you can avoid assets entering probate if you leave them in "paid upon death" type of accounts. Upon death, a loved one or executor of the will can simply provide the bank a copy of the death certificate and walk out with the cash.
•My Grandmother left her only assets, the paid upon death accounts, in my sisters name. My sister is the executor of the will. My sister is now claiming ALL of this money as hers and that Grandma, who is an excessively frugal woman, simply paid the legal fees to draft up a detailed will to leave her loved ones specific percentages of...nothing.
•My sister was also the power of attorney after Grandma's stroke, so it would make sense to the financial accounts were P.O.D. to her to avoid probate and carry out the intent of the will.
•The family is horrified that my sister could actually believe that ALL assets were to go to her and the written will is a worthless piece of paper, gifting family member’s specific percentages of nothing.
•My sister contends that if Grandma did not want her to have all of the money, she would not have made the accounts payable on death to her. Furthermore, initially, my sister was going to give my brother and me "a few bucks" and nothing to my/her wheel chair bound mother and aunt (let alone the cousins and nieces notated in the will). Are we being blind or is this morally theft? We feel that Grandma set up the accounts P.O.D. to simply avoid probate and my sister, as executor of the will and power of attorney was simply the beneficiary to expedite distribution of assets according to the will (why would my Grandmother pay legal fees to draft a will gifting percentages of nothing). Are we wrong and she right?

Please write as if you were speaking to my sister as I would like to forward this link to her with the subject matter, “Unbiased advise – based upon the facts only.”

Thank you.

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