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Uhm.. Is there not? Did I misunderstand the lawyer? I got the impression that the main issue about the will was the money. You get to choose whether or not to take the house or let Elaine have it. If you take the house, she's got 30 days to get out. Once she's out, you could easily move in there and have the girls join you.Was hoping there would be a way to keep the girls and the house and throw that b*tch elaine out
Even if you don't get a dime of the money (which will likely now all wind up going to Dizzy), you'll have a house, a beach house, the 100k, and a pretty sweet car. As somebody else suggested - rent out the beach house. You can probably get enough from that alone to cover property taxes and upkeep on the main house, and you could do some investing. It's not like you wouldn't be looking for some kind of career as well.
Biggest hurdle for my MC is going to be the Katie issue. Gotta make it real clear to Deb and Lily that Katie cannot come to the MC's home, because of the will conditions. That's the financial stability of their family and children at stake. Practically speaking, it'd be for the best to sell all his properties and move someplace else with them, but that may prove a hard sell for D&L.
edit: Why do I focus on D&L? Because they're young, healthy, and don't violate the terms of the will (so far as anything suggests), and my MC wants to be a family man. Birth defect rates skyrocket the older the woman is. I don't care how beautiful she is, if she's 40+, I am not pissing away my entire potential inheritance on 'special needs' being a likely requirement to consider. Where at 20 the chances might be 1 in 1.5k births of having a defect, at 40 it's 1 in 65. 1 in 20 by age 45, and 1in 7 by age 50. HARD PASS. You can spray your seed wherever you want, but I'd want the absolute best odds for my progeny to grow up healthy.
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