Last week I was visiting my parents for dinner, and we got to talking about their inheritance. I have two sisters, and we keep joking that my parents will have to choose their favorite daughter, and leave her 34% of the inheritance, while the other two only get 33%. So every time someone mentions my parents’ will or inheritance, we discuss whether or not they figured out who gets the extra 1%.

Jokes aside, all three of us know that when the time comes (hopefully in many decades into the future), the best and most civil way my parents should handle the inheritance is by dividing it equally among the three daughters. None of us wants to get more than the other, and we don’t want the unnecessary stress or jealousy over something we cannot control. If our parents truly love all three of us, they understand they should never put us through inheritance disputes.

Unfortunately, the two brothers in the story below are going through this type of dispute at this exact moment.