Blending families is more complicated than your average marriage. For starters, there are more financial assets, kids, and career benefits to keep in mind, while simultaneously juggling the family dynamic on two sides. With enough baggage to make LAX jealous, a 50-year-old woman found herself cornered by her new partner after refusing to sell her late husband’s belongings. While it may not seem like enough to rock the boat in this family, her late husband’s life’s work just so happened to be a vintage car collection worth $800,000.
Now, that’s a lot of skrilla!
A non-negligible amount of money stood between this woman’s future stepkid’s college fund and the inheritance right of her firstborn son, a 26-year-old to whom her late husband left everything.
With a few well-polished grease buckets sitting in the garage with her son’s name on them, she made the tough call. Instead of disrespecting her late husband’s legacy, she followed his final wishes and gave her son full access and full ownership over the vintage cars. By preserving that legacy, she may have driven a wedge between herself and her future, but instead chose to honor the past.
