SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY
THE RIGHT OF THE FIRSTBORN.....
"If a man has two wives and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love, when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the first born to the son of the wife he loves in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the wife he does not love. He must acknowledge the son of his unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double share of all he has. That son is the first sign of his fathers strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him." DEUTERONOMY 21:15-17
I must get all this off my mind and let people know about the wrong that has been done to myself and my sisters from another marriage concerning our fathers last Will and Testament.
From the beginning, when our dad agreed to the terms of his Will in 2004 we were all named as beneficiaries in his estate. Certain percentages of the family trust were stated in this agreement between Dad and his 3rd wife. As the only child of the 3rd wife my brother whose name I will not publish here was to receive the most, the house, the cars, all the contents and real estate and 50% of the family trust because he was the their only child together. He also had children from his second marriage, 2 daughters, who were basically abandoned were also named in the will as beneficiaries to receive a small portion of the estate. My other sister from my mother, whose name will not be mentioned was adopted by her step-father which effectively left her completely out of any inheritance. By the way, all 3 of her children were named as executors of the Will. Go figure.
To make this long story short, our father died from mesothelioma about 4 years ago but before he died he filed a wrongful death claim with a Mesothelioma attorney at my youngest brother's request. That claim turned out to be worth several hundred thousand dollars. At the time Dad was going over all this with the attorney, he named all of us as beneficiaries to this money, even my adopted sisters name was on the list. After dad died we were sent a paper to sign giving 100% of this money to my step-mother. Which none of us signed except our youngest brother who stood to inherit 50% of everything. Why wouldn't he sign it knowing this? Because we didn't sign it the matter went before a probate judge and the judge awarded dads wife, youngest brothers mom, 50% and the other 50% divided equally among the children named as beneficiaries in the wrongful death claim, including the younger brother who got the same as us plus what was left when his mother died which was a few months ago. Keep in mind, there was never any contact made by the step-mother to any of dad's other kids regarding the Will or the trust. In fact, everything was hush hush, they didn't want us to know how much was involved and as a matter of fact, the younger brother down played what the claim was really worth. We found out from our probate attorney that the claim was in the 100s of thousands of dollars.
Now, since we fought for our rightful share of the wrongful death claim and won, that made her very angry at us according to our brother, she cried tears for days and decided to write us all out of the rest of the estate, which for my sisters amounted to 15% of the trust divided between them, 35% divided between myself and her other 2 kids by another marriage. There was also a coin collection that was suppose to go to our youngest sister and a couple guns for me. The coin collection can't be found now and the guns were never passed on to me and the subject has been dropped from most of our conversations, until recently when we found out what was going on.
There was never any effort on their part to let us know what was going on with the estate. After having an attorney review the Will and Trust documents, we were told that the documents were one sided that from the beginning this thing was set up to be changed at will for any reason.
We loved our younger brother. I told him more than a few times how proud I was of him because he served in the military during the Iraq war. And I thought he was a man of integrity, honesty and trustworthiness. I thought we were closer than that, we always hugged each other and told each other "love ya" after telephone conversations. We went fishing and drank beer together, we share the same conservative political views and the same Father. I thought that meant something. But for him to keep our rightful share of our dad's estate, as small as it was considering what he got I feel is a disgrace! Even if his mother had a problem with the "other kids" that should not have an effect on doing what was right and at least giving us what our father wanted us to have.
By the way, our dad had the equivalent of an 8th grade education so he had very little understanding of the terms set before him when he signed the Will and Trust. Not to mention he was hen-pecked into it. We do know he loved us and wanted us to have a share in what he worked for and died for. I know he would not approve of what this step-mother has done. Even if we would have all signed that wrongful death claim giving her 100% she was still planning on changing the Will to benefit her own kids.
So to my brother, whom I loved, How could you go long with all this knowing what dad wanted? What good is a mans dying wishes if the ones entrusted to carry it out do not honor them? You have dishonored our father and went along with cheating your brother and sisters out of their rightful share of dads estate. There is something called "Karma" and a curse on "ill-gotten gain" which you now have. So, when your health suddenly starts to deteriorate, your relationships suffer, and your finances dwindle remember what the Bible says, "Vengeance is mine, says the Lord. I will repay." So my brother, even if you think you have won, you will lose. We hope you enjoy spending our share of the estate and your greed be your downfall. I'd like to call you some choice names and express my utter disappointment but the God I believe in says that would not be wise. So here is my prayer for you my brother...…..
PRAYER FOR TODAY
LORD God, I thank You for all my blessings for they are many. For my children and grandchildren, for my health and the beauty that surrounds me where I live, for my resources, abundance and prosperity. Thank You Father God... You are my awesome heavenly Father in whom I trust and who has never let me down. Let Your will be done and Your kingdom come soon on this earth!
I pray for my brother Lord who has seen fit to dishonor our father by stealing the inheritance meant for me and my sisters. Help us to forgive him as hard as that might be knowing he is imperfect and probably under the influence of his mothers greed and evil intent, dishonoring her husbands wishes. Let him be aware of the error in his ways and make this thing right in Your eyes so he does not have to suffer the curse and the Karma that goes along with this folly. According to Your Word, make it so.... Thank You Lord for answering my prayers, in the name of JESUS, make it so....Amen
