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Woman Sues Parents After They Spent Her Personal College Fund on Brother's Wedding
Distractify ^ | Mar 17, 2023 | MUSTAFA GATOLLARI

Posted on 03/17/2023 8:35:35 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

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To: PeterPrinciple
Please notice you are fabricating your own story because you do not like the one presented.

If you want to write that story and submit it as fact in the same way then go for it. But you should not tamper with the stories of others because you do not like the narrative.

That is what liberals do.

41 posted on 03/17/2023 10:55:23 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ("EATING... BABIES.... IS NOT.... COOL!" -Rath)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Please notice you are fabricating your own story because you do not like the one presented.
If you want to write that story and submit it as fact in the same way then go for it. But you should not tamper with the stories of others because you do not like the narrative.

That is what liberals do.


Well I am sure glad you trust the media. No wonder we are in trouble.


42 posted on 03/17/2023 11:03:30 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

You don’t know the structure of that money, so maybe you shouldn’t say such definitive things. If you are an accountant then you know what I mean.


43 posted on 03/17/2023 11:19:21 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Actions have consequences. Did read this money was
not her personal savings, but willed to her (not by name?) by
a relative. In what country does she live? Her deceased
relative?

First, in the USA it is common that female's family pays for
the wedding, NOT the groom's. Had this been from personal savings
she would have every right to be pissed. That it was not, and her
inheritance has disappeared she should consider it to be a lesson
learned. Perhaps that lesson: her parents think more of their
sons than they do their daughters.

44 posted on 03/17/2023 12:05:08 PM PDT by V K Lee (Our CONSTITUTION. Written with DIVINE assistance by very wise men. A document Unlike any other.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

This is like child stars in hollywood where the parents spent the money the kid made and left the kid broke when the kid grew up.

I have relatives who have stolen the life savings of family members. I have talked to others and they have stories of their own. Too common.
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45 posted on 03/17/2023 12:25:42 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Rummyfan

Exactly what she’s doing. Sue them. If it’s in writing it’s enforceable. Setting up that kind of trust is an expensive proposition. Depending on how much money the aunt had it might have chewed up too much to send both girls to college to lock it up like that. And if the parents were worth a damn it wouldn’t have been a problem.


46 posted on 03/17/2023 12:31:10 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Let’s post something that is ambiguous unless you read the article and get people with limited comprehension arguing and calling each other names.


47 posted on 03/17/2023 12:43:00 PM PDT by webheart
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To: CodeToad
Maybe you should

Read the comments following mine, directed to you, that totally destroy your previous claims.......Nice try tho.

If I'm ever in need of a financial lawyer, I ain't looking to you..........LOL!

48 posted on 03/17/2023 12:55:18 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (From here on out, transmission fluid will be referred to as Gender Neutral Shift Juice)
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To: webheart
I thought it was an interesting post which provided a different take than another I posted:

Dad Spends Daughter's $30k College Tuition to Remodel Kitchen And She Is Furious. Was He Wrong?
49 posted on 03/17/2023 1:36:52 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

I missed that it was a White House press release.


50 posted on 03/17/2023 1:50:34 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: CodeToad
So, it is their money. Your morals suck since you think children should dictate what parents do with their own money.

Actually, had you read the article, you would find that it was not their money. It was an inheritance for the girl's education from an aunt. Apparently the parents banked it in their own names.

51 posted on 03/17/2023 5:03:17 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: nwrep
I still maintain that marriage is more important than a college education.

Oh, please. A marriage can be entirely valid and lasting without a big expensive party. But to steal from and deny an education to a sibling because she is a woman is plain wrong.

52 posted on 03/17/2023 5:07:26 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: Fireone
The Aunt is the villain here, possibly unknowingly, but still failed.

The immigrant aunt is a "VILLAIN" for not hiring a big American lawyer to make an expensive document instead of relying on their apparently cultural customs of trusting her sibling to do as she asked to benefit his child? A villain who "failed"? It's her fault that her sibling lied and stole from her niece?

Wow.

53 posted on 03/17/2023 5:11:08 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: PeterPrinciple
Please note the source of the article.

That is a straw man argument if I ever saw one.

54 posted on 03/17/2023 5:17:19 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: V K Lee
Had this been from personal savings she would have every right to be pissed. That it was not, and her inheritance has disappeared she should consider it to be a lesson learned. Perhaps that lesson: her parents think more of their sons than they do their daughters.

Dear FRiend, I beg to differ. Knowing that the aunt had left her the funds apparently some time ago, she may have planned her life and school preparation around the expectation that she could try for a career instead of her culture's apparent male-domineered housewifery, or retail hell.

The parents were born elsewhere, but she appears to have been born (or grew up as) an American, and has indeed learned an important lesson: if someone steals from you, you can sue them. Even if you are a woman.

I hope she wins. Her parents openly debased her worth in favor of her brother, and for a frivolous, self-serving reason—probably to look good entertaining their friends at their son's wedding. That is not something most people could just brush off, assuming their goal to pursue an education is deep and sincere.

55 posted on 03/17/2023 5:30:23 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: minnesota_bound
I have relatives who have stolen the life savings of family members. I have talked to others and they have stories of their own. Too common.

Same here. It's so wicked.

“Where there's a will, there's a relative.”

56 posted on 03/17/2023 5:32:18 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: CodeToad

“So, it is their money.”

Sometimes it’s good to read the article. Just sayin’...


57 posted on 03/17/2023 5:36:29 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: Albion Wilde

A bit dramatic I’d say.
It’s cheap to set up a trust, that states exactly who and what gets use of the money.
No “big American lawyer” involved, a paralegal can do it.
The parents were given access to the money, by the Aunt’s hand, that’s the law.
If trust was broken, that’s on the parents, I merely pointed out this entire situation could, and should, have been avoided.
Don’t get too excited, it didn’t concern you personally.


58 posted on 03/17/2023 5:53:03 PM PDT by Fireone (The only reason our elections are complicated is because the cheaters want it that way.)
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To: Albion Wilde
““Where there's a will, there's a relative.””

How true, how true. And, in many cases more than one!
Midsomer Murders has nothing compared to this family.
:-)

59 posted on 03/17/2023 5:59:25 PM PDT by V K Lee (Our CONSTITUTION. Written with DIVINE assistance by very wise men. A document Unlike any other.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The article certainly paints the parents are villains, but whether they are legally liable or simply morally reprehensible (or perhaps neither) depends on facts not in the article and legal nuances that may or may not be within the writer’s understanding.


60 posted on 03/17/2023 6:31:38 PM PDT by Burma Jones
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