24-year-old brother refuses to financially provide for his 16-year-old sisters’ baby: ‘She said I was abandoning her like her boyfriend did.’

She needs to take the dad to court and get the child support she’s entitled to. There’s no world in which she doesn’t get child support if her ex-boyfriend is the father, even if they have to garnish his wages.

Sister with poor credit demands sibling cosign on a car loan for her, claiming she needs a new car despite her financial situation, sibling refuses: ‘The loan would fall on me’

How far are you willing to go to help your sibling, and where do you draw the line? When my older sister had her eldest daughter and granted me my first ever niece, I thought there was nothing she could ask of me that I would say no to. I spoiled both of them rotten. …
Seguir leyendo Sister with poor credit demands sibling cosign on a car loan for her, claiming she needs a new car despite her financial situation, sibling refuses: ‘The loan would fall on me’

19-year-old refuses to give his parents and 7 younger siblings money after having supported them financially since he was 12: ‘It’s up to everyone else to make it work since it was on me from a really unfair age.’

It’s time for his parents and siblings to step up. No parent wants to ask their kid to help support the family financially. The parents who ask this of their teenage children only do so when they’re in the most desperate financial situation. They want to ensure the lights stay on, so they ask their …
Seguir leyendo 19-year-old refuses to give his parents and 7 younger siblings money after having supported them financially since he was 12: ‘It’s up to everyone else to make it work since it was on me from a really unfair age.’

Father demands daughter fund his 78-year-old sister’s lavish lifestyle after he’s gone, cuts her out of the will when she says no: ‘She has children that should be doing that’

Family and money never mix well. One woman recently shared that her father asked her to promise to take care of his sister financially after he dies. The daughter refused, saying it wasn’t fair for her to take on that burden, especially since her aunt has adult children of her own who should be responsible …
Seguir leyendo Father demands daughter fund his 78-year-old sister’s lavish lifestyle after he’s gone, cuts her out of the will when she says no: ‘She has children that should be doing that’

18-year-old inherits $1 million from his grandfather, spends all the money traveling the world, and emerges with no prospects at 35 years old: ‘I want a life with a stable salary, a wife, and kids.’

He had a life-changing amount of money, and he squandered it in less than two decades. A great deal of society has contempt for poor people, but that contempt can come from very different places. If someone grew up poor and was able to work their way out of poverty, they might feel contempt for …
Seguir leyendo 18-year-old inherits $1 million from his grandfather, spends all the money traveling the world, and emerges with no prospects at 35 years old: ‘I want a life with a stable salary, a wife, and kids.’

Father redirects $1,000 in daughter’s monthly support to save for retirement after she makes it clear she won’t care for him in old age: ‘I realized I don’t want my future to be in the hands of someone who intends to lord that over me’

Parent and child arguments can cut deep, but few hit harder than when affection turns into accounting. A father supporting his daughter through post-college life suddenly finds himself questioning the entire arrangement after one blow-up about a messy kitchen. In the middle of it, his daughter throws out the kind of line you can’t unhear, …
Seguir leyendo Father redirects $1,000 in daughter’s monthly support to save for retirement after she makes it clear she won’t care for him in old age: ‘I realized I don’t want my future to be in the hands of someone who intends to lord that over me’

19-year-old college student refuses to change her major from Fine Arts to Computer Science despite her parents’ insistence: ‘If I don’t change my major by next semester, they’ll cut off their financial support.’

If a parent is going to pay for their kid’s college education, they usually have some say in where their kid goes to school and what they study. There are parents out there who are happy to pay $200K for their child to get a musical theatre degree, but those are few and far between. …
Seguir leyendo 19-year-old college student refuses to change her major from Fine Arts to Computer Science despite her parents’ insistence: ‘If I don’t change my major by next semester, they’ll cut off their financial support.’

28-year-old asks her ex-boyfriend to give her a financial settlement for their breakup because she moved internationally to be with him 2 years ago: ‘I didn’t ask her to drop out or move, she chose to and I supported her the whole time’

People will sacrifice a lot for love, even without the guarantee of it lasting forever. I’m sure many of us know people who have moved across the country for the sole purpose of being with a partner, and it went horribly terribly wrong. Who could forget that TikTok of a woman who moved from LA …
Seguir leyendo 28-year-old asks her ex-boyfriend to give her a financial settlement for their breakup because she moved internationally to be with him 2 years ago: ‘I didn’t ask her to drop out or move, she chose to and I supported her the whole time’

‘Things went off the rails’: 50-year-old woman loses her entire pension and savings to a scam artist, then turns to son for financial support, his wife refuses to help her

If you don’t want to keep working until you’re 90, you need to have a solid pension and savings to hold you up during your old age. And this is not news to anybody. The moment we start our first real job, we are aware that we must also start saving money for those later …
Seguir leyendo ‘Things went off the rails’: 50-year-old woman loses her entire pension and savings to a scam artist, then turns to son for financial support, his wife refuses to help her