Timely bump by pantherclub as I was just getting ready to post this:
My uncle has a brother and a sister. Both my uncle and his brother are EXTREMELY well off. Uncle was a superintendent of a school district for years and his brother is a very good lawyer. The sister is bat-#### crazy.
Their father passed a decade ago and their mom died last week. The sister has been staying with mom the last year and just siphoning away thousands of dollars. When her husband told her what she was doing is wrong, she left him and shacked up with another dude who had no problem enabling the theft of funds for months.
After the services, my Uncle's brother (the lawyer) started to comb through the paperwork to get everything in order from his mother's estate. He already knew who got what, he drew the will up himself. NOT SO FAST! Sister produces a paper dated two weeks before their mother's death leaving EVERYTHING to her. Keep in mind, up until this point, the mother obviously just had her son draw up the legal docs.
So now they're all fighting. My uncle blames the sister for everything and his brother for not having the foresight to stop her shenanigans. Sister claims she took care of their mother for the last year so she deserves it all (not true, she lived there, yes, but was always whoring around and going on vacations on mom's dime). The laywer-brother just wants out and is fed up with the situation.
Sad, sad situation.