The division of assets in a will can put any family on edge. After all, many people usually have expectations about a lump sum that’s coming their way.

One grandfather’s will proved particularly contentious for his 25-year-old granddaughter was left with practically everything after he passed away – and she’s refusing to share it with her family.

In fact, her parents are furious, but she feels pretty justified in keeping the money because her fiancé cheated on her with her 28-year-old sister, and her parents took her sister’s side.

The woman wrote on Reddit: ‘My family situation is messy. I was engaged four years ago to my high school sweetheart. My fiancé cheated on me with my sister.

‘We had never had a good relationship, even as kids, so after I found out, I went scorched earth on both of them.

‘She was “so in love” with my fiancé, but he dumped her within two weeks and was back trying to get me to forgive him (I didn’t).

‘My parents were initially on my side, but my sister had a nervous breakdown after she was dumped and was hospitalised, so they changed their tune to “it’s over now and you can’t be mad forever”.

‘So I dumped them too, and went to grad school on the other side of the country.

‘My grandfather was livid with the whole thing, disowned my sister, and chewed out my parents. Sometimes it felt like he was the only one who was on my side and understood.

‘I was able to get my job to let me work remotely and moved back to take care of him when he got sick last fall and I was devastated when he passed a couple of months ago.

‘I had been in limited contact with my parents since I came back, mostly because I didn’t want to be an obstacle to my dad seeing my grandfather, but with the understanding that any discussion of my sister or what happened would end that.’

It seems that her grandfather felt very strongly about the family drama that had taken place because in his will he left the original poster ‘virtually everything’.

She added: ‘He left enough for my father to cover a debt and some token stuff for a couple of other relatives, but he wrote a letters for everyone and did a video tape with his attorney explaining what his intentions were.

‘I knew that he had done well for himself, but he lived a pretty simple lifestyle so I didn’t realize how much money and assets he really had.

‘I would give it all up to have my papaw back but even after taxes it is set for life money.

‘My parents are pretty mad about it. One of the reasons stated for cutting them out was how disappointed my grandfather was with how they had treated me growing up vs my sister over the fiancé debacle.

‘There were other reasons, but that’s what they’re fixated on. The will is pretty airtight apparently, so my parents want me to “do the right thing” and share it equally between me, them, and my sister.

‘Their argument is that I don’t need it. I make more than both of them combined and this would allow them to retire.

‘My sister is not doing great and can’t hold a job, so this would ensure she has something for when my parents pass.

‘I don’t want to. My grandfather’s wishes were crystal clear, and also I kind of don’t feel like doing more than the minimum for any of them.

‘They’ve been telling me that I’m being vindictive because of a mistake years ago.

‘I can’t deny there might be a little vindictiveness there. I don’t want them to suffer necessarily, but I also don’t feel like they deserve my help.’

And it seems the internet were firmly in her camp with the top comment getting a whopping 15,000 likes and reading: ‘I’m so sorry your Pawpaw has gone. He sounds very loving and interesting by the way you speak about him here.

‘That said, set your family connections on fire and walk away. That’s what he would have wanted, and he granted you the means to do so. Walk tall, you’ve earned this.’

Referring back to the comment the original poster made about her grandfather’s wishes being ‘crystal clear’, one Reddit user wrote: ‘Indeed. And your parents are, again, showing how awful they are by trying to emotionally manipulate you into going against those clear wishes.

‘Your parents were free to patch up these relationships while your grandfather was alive. They didn’t and these are the consequences.’

Another agreed, saying: ‘Ah, if it isn’t the consequences of their own actions coming back to bite them!

‘If only any of them had cared about “doing the right thing” when your sister pulled her BS.

‘It would be a disservice to your grandfather to ignore his expressly detailed and outlined wishes.

‘You aren’t being vindictive, it’s literally what he wanted. Anything they are “suffering” from isn’t yours to fix or carry for them.’

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