How Estrangement Has Become an Epidemic in America

Time ^ | December 13, 2024 | JOSHUA COLEMAN AND WILL JOHNSON

[kiryandil]

To: Fuzz
Hey fuzzy, We’re a little short on trolls over it The DU Today please do us all a big favor and go over there and troll a little for us will you please? Leave this thread for the Trump fans. Thanks

781 posted on 1/19/2025, 6:06:29 PM by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4291048/posts?page=781#781

[kiryandil]

To: Fuzz
Hey fuzzy, We’re a little short on trolls over it The DU Today please do us all a big favor and go over there and troll a little for us will you please? Leave this thread for the Trump fans. Thanks

781 posted on 1/19/2025, 6:06:29 PM by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4291048/posts?page=781#781

[TXBlair]

I love your idea!

[kiryandil]

To: Fuzz
Hey fuzzy, We’re a little short on trolls over it The DU Today please do us all a big favor and go over there and troll a little for us will you please? Leave this thread for the Trump fans. Thanks

781 posted on 1/19/2025, 6:06:29 PM by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4291048/posts?page=781#781

[dpetty121263]

So many kids are suing the Parents for their inheritance any more, want it right now even if the parents still alive and well. During my time in the Court system I saw a dozen hearings where the kids demanded what the Parents had.

[ridesthemiles]

HE CAN GO TO COURT & CHALLENGE THIS

[TXBlair]

Seriously! What crawled up Fuzz’s fanny tonight? Must be that time of the month. 🤷‍♀️

[BlueLancer]

The easy way to deal with that is rewrite your will to skip over the ungrateful children and give every thing to the grands when they reach a certain age. Unless, of course, the grands turn out to be a bunch of jerks also.

The easiest way is to just take it with you when you go ....

[kiryandil]

These Democrat Underground types on Free Republic have a predictable cycle on FR - they get the High Speed Lefty wobs and go off the rails, into the loving hands of the FR moderators, who give them a time-out to get their DemoCommie minds right.

[ponygirl]

The administrator of the estate. I’m not sure how things are done today, but I’ve encountered many wills in my genealogy research where the children were skipped in favor of the grandchildren. The administrator or Executor had to submit accounts to the court every month until the children were of age, even if a parent was still living. My own grandparents were passed over by the in-laws in favor of the grandchildren. They never wanted my grandmother to marry my grandfather because he quit school in the 8th grade. So the farm they lived on was deeded to the grandchildren. My grandfather. who was the sweetest, most hardworking man you would ever meet, never owned a single square inch of property. He was a sharecropper first, and then moved onto the in-laws land that was deeded to his kids. He had a stroke at age 79 and fell off his tractor, which rolled over him.

[alexander_busek]

Just over half of those who are estranged because of politics want to reconcile to some degree, and an apology from the relative [...]

From WHICH relative? The one who was "shunned?!"

Regards,

[alexander_busek]

Who has control over the assets till they reach a certain age?

The person or entity (law firm, bank) whom YOU appoint in your Will to act as guardian.

Regards,

[Celtic Conservative]

I’m gen X. Cut me off and I may not even notice. If I do notice I won’t care. Because if you’re willing to cut me out of your life over something like popular culture or politics then you weren’t really a good friend in the first place.

CC

[equaviator]

To go “no contact” gives them power over somebody else. It’s what they want because it’s what they otherwise lack.

[bankwalker]

Everybody got a trophy 🏆

[MayflowerMadam]

Interesting that the bodies of Gene Hackman and his wife have been on ice for more than a month and their bodies haven’t been claimed by any of his three children. That’s one kick-ass grudge.

[MayflowerMadam]

“But the things she believed..why did she have to say them out loud?!”

They can’t help themselves. Seriously. “The devil made me do it.”

[bankwalker]

I never tell anyone how I vote. I was raised that way. There is a good reason for the curtain on the voting booth.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Unless, of course, the grands turn out to be a bunch of jerks also.”

I’ve heard reporting on polls that show the 18-to-29 age range is leaning pretty conservative. One report said they are the most conservative generation in several decades. Not sure if it’s true; you can make polls say anything.

[Hot Tabasco]

I have several senior friends who are Trump supporters who have been disowned by friends and family because of it.