Has anyone ever been involved in a contested will? My wife's grandpa died in the fall and he ended up leaving almost everything to his new wife. Her grandma died about 7 or 8 years ago in her early 90s, but the old guy (about 89 at the time) still had some gas in the tank and within about a year started dating a woman in her late 70s. Within about another year he had moved her in and they got married pretty quickly later.
Fast forward to today and he left her all his money and possessions, and he left his house (waterfront with a dock on the Sunshine Coast) to his (2) children with the caveat that his new wife can live there "for the rest of her day". The house is still full of all the stuff from his 70 years of marriage to his first wife including a lot of nice artwork, personal diaries, a portfolio of his work (he was an architect), etc. She is refusing to give them back anything. She is also not much older than my wife's dad and aunt so if she lives a long life I might end up being her fucking landlord before this is all over. To make this sting even more she had her own beachfront property where she lived when he met her. She had been married herself and got all her first husband's shit. There might have been another one too. I checked BC Assessment and it shows that she sold it for 1.7 million 3 years ago, so she has plenty of her own cash and she set her own kids up with the money to buy property for themselves after the sale apparently. I wish I believed in the afterlife because I would love to see the beat-down dumb bastard would get from Grandma.
My wife's dad has talked to his lawyer and is saying that it isn't worth it to go after her, but this woman is pissing him off more by the day so he might decide to still. Has anyone seen anything like this? It would seem to me that they would have a decent case to at least get her out of the house. She has money and they are losing money by the day by not being able to rent it out or sell it. The stupid horny old man basically gave another family a small fortune and this woman is living a carefree life 2 doors down from my father-in-law. I have no idea how he keeps his composure.