The Question: As part of a program at work and/or school (that will either earn you extra credit for a class in which you’re really struggling and/or give you an advantage for a promotion at work) you decide to participate in the school’s/company’s program of partnering with the local elder care facility to be a companion to an elder who doesn’t get any/many visitors. Even though you would rather be doing anything else, you are faithful to the mission and always show up when you say you’ll show up and you’re pleasant, engaging and willing to do whatever your elder asks of you.

After almost a year of participating in the program, you receive a letter saying that your elder has passed away, and his/her lawyer requests that you come to his/her office on a specified date at a specified time for the reading of the elder’s will, which includes you. When you show up for the reading of the will, you are shocked when the lawyer introduces you to the elder’s four adult children, none of whom the elder ever spoke of and none of whom ever visited while you knew the elder.

The lawyer reads the will. The elder has excluded all of his/her children and left you his/her entire multi-million-dollar estate to thank you for your time and kindness. The four adult children explode with anger and promise they are going to fight the validity of the will, which you know will cause the entire estate to be tied up in litigation for months, maybe years. What do you do?

My 2 Cents: I would like to believe the first thing I’d try to do is reason with the four adult children and try to offer then some sort of monetary gift from the estate. If a resolution could not be reached this way, I would like to believe I’d just simply send up a prayer that God’s will be done in the situation, do as much research as I can on what happens when people contest the last will and testament of someone and then wait.

Sidebar: It’s interesting that no men responded to this question. I wonder why?

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Take a few moments to check out the tweets from Twitter on this subject:

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sunshine625 Give the kids $1 each & say CYA suckas! lol

Jaketha W-o-w!!! I would keep my mouth shut & hired my own lawyers/accountants to look things over while praying f

EpicView_SP I guess I would be in litigation. I took care of my godmother for 11 years. During that time she had only a few relatives visit

IamRah I would give the children some a few million…

XPhile1908 I get a lawyer and mount up for a bumpy ride.

jazzzyone 1st try to negotiate a deal where I give the 4 children a cut of the inheritance. If they say no, then off to court.

Juicyfruit4u See you in court! LOL

PROTECTED TWEETER Currently most ALF’s & Hospice facility volunteers sign an affidavit to NOT accept gifts of that nature. So, welp?

queenesther Fight, of course. If it was really a dying wish that I get the $ & the will is ironclad, it won’t take long in the courts.

PROTECTED TWEETER you let them fight it out…really does not involve you…you haven’t lost anything yet no matter how long it takes

cjsmom06 If the kids abandoned their elder, I would abide by his/her wishes. The kids can use the courts to asauge their guilt.

DiamondEmory I am totally letting the case get tied up in court! Elders will NOT my doing. Will shuld be honred!

shargrove you really never know; the stories with families; however you tell them what you think & divide the money.

LadyJay91 Cont. whatever the outcome of the court I would honor it.

LadyJay91 I would let the 4 kids take the time to address it in court. It was the elders last wishes & they should be honored.

md20737 I wld take that check and keep on moving.I put in work when I didnt want to or have too. Life was only rewarding me 4 positvity

NightShade10 I would probably choose 2 donate the money 2 the school’s ed progr 2 help the disadvantaged 2 obtain an ed-let court decide

flawlessmi I would see them in court they did not desereve the funds. I would spend a % on getting more companions for the elderly

xsashagirl WOW!! That’s pretty intense. I would let the inheritance ride & allow the litigation to go forth.

ibster Try & find the portal back to my universe…alternately, get myself a lawyer and fight them all the way.

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