[A CA Guy]

You are going to be one broke fellow later in life if you pursue all your issues through court.

They were her family and there is a gray area there where it wouldn't be said they out-right broke the law.

You would suggest every-time there is a dispute over $1000 worth of stuff that you would go to court and spend upward of $10,000 in court with a smile on your face.
No way!

If you really want something like they did, you have to get it. Otherwise, who ever is in possession of this stuff if it goes to court automatically gets it.
That's pretty much how I've ever seen it work.
I've never seen charges pressed in family courts over this kind of action either. Especially not with the parents and brother of a murder victim.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Well, I havn't been in this situation - no one in my family will put me in their will (for their own protection, I'm sure)... that being said, I understand the 'moral' argument you are making... However, this is just another example of two families fighting over material things (liek the crib - it's not like the baby ever USED it, so where, really, is there any 'sentimental value' in it?) after a tragic death - saw it any times in my own family, and was disgusted by them too...

Bottom line is, no matter how it's spinned, it was theft...