Cash inheritance delayed until house is sold and market recovers

[Padraigb]

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In law, you can insist on the €20,000. In practice, you might choose not to.

The residuary beneficiaries made a choice to gamble on property values. It seems they made a bad call. It would be quite wrong to expect Stephen to underwrite their gambling losses.

The fact that it is wrong does not mean they won't try it.

 

[saintstephen]

Thank you all for taking the time to reply, I have been reading with interest.

Brendan.... It was a surprise to me when my grandmother left me the money, we were close and in her last ten years we helped along with my uncle to take care of her, I loved her and it out of that love I have never pushed this, I know she would not want the family to argue about this. However, when my uncle told me he expected me to take less than my grandmother had written I began to feel that maybe they are taking advantage of the fact I have been easy going. So I decided to update to get opinions here.

I have been given good advice here, thanks, I will not agree to accepting less than I was willed, however I do not want to go down the legal route yet, is there a time limit on when my inheritance will end if I do not pursue this legally ?

Thank you