This gets, NASTY for most families, but not for this one, they'd reached an understanding of things, and, none of them, fought for the parents', assets that they have the rights to, inherit…translated…
Joan was a former colleague of mine, she's the only unwed child of all her siblings, and she'd, lived with her parents, and, shouldered up the responsibilities of looking after them.
As her eldest sister was diagnosed with cancer, she got divorced, and moved back to Taiwan from the U.S., in with her and her, parents. During those years, her father was demented, her older sister, ill with cancer, her mother, paralyzed, bedridden, and, they'd hired, a nurse's, aide, and after Joan was off work, she'd, needed to, rush home, to take over the caretaking needs.
During the decades' time, she'd lost her father, and her, eldest, sister, last year, her mother had, passed, the originally family of five, counting the hired nurse's aide, there was only, her left. After her mother's funeral, what followed was the splitting of the, assets. She'd once asked her younger sister, how they should, split up the assets of her mother's savings, her retirement funds, along with the property under her mother's, name, her younger sister responded straightforwardly, "we can't split it up, if we split up the assets, we won't be, a family, anymore!"
Her younger sister stated that she wanted Joan to oversee the savings of their mothers, while the ownerships of that old apartment, go to all of them, siblings. Her younger sister has the money, didn't need the assets left behind by their mother; the second eldest sister who's divorced, her two daughters are also, grown, no need to worry about living, she'd not needed the inherited; while her eldest brother who'd retired in the U.S., also, retired with more than enough retirement fund, didn't need the money either.
"I want to use the money for when my eldest brother's stay when he'd come back, the family gatherings, and the trips we will be taking as a family, what our parents would give to the grandchildren when they get married, and the amount to make the offerings to our parents yearly, and all of these would only be a tiny portion of what my parents, left behind, the rest, I put it in the banks, what's left, whoever goes, what the offspring want to do with it, up to them to, decide.", Joan stated.
As I'd heard that that was how Joan and her siblings did with the inheritance from their, parents, I was in awe, and the love and trust of the siblings was, unimaginable. How many people do we see each and every day, fighting to the DEATH, over the assets of their, parents'; while for Joan and her loved ones, they can, be so light in the matter of what her parents, left, behind, I'm sure, it's an affirmation of what Joan had done, looking after their parents, and, thinking for the sake of her loved ones, and it'd made me understood, that the relationship of the family, is worth, way much more, than any form of, assets, inheritances, left, behind.
And so, this is on how this family, decided to "split up" the assets after the parents are, gone, they didn't, because they all had enough on their own, so they didn't care that much over who got what after the parents died, and, this is rare, because, for most, as the parents died, the children started, fighting over the assets, of who inherits what from the parents, splitting up the properties, the money in the banks, etc., etc., etc.
