Nothing quite like a death in the family to bring out the very worst in people. When my Mum died she hadn't seen my brother in over 20 years but guess who phoned me after the funeral. Not for it, but after it. He was working on the day!!! There was very little money left from the sale of the family home and since I was on the building society book I paid all bills and dispersed what was left to where my Mum would have wanted it to go. I made sure my cousin, who had been better than a son to my Mum got something to help with a holiday to NZ. I gave my brother the large half of what was left and didn't contact him again. He died not that much later and I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when he ended up wherever my Dad was as he would have given him such a roasting over his awful treatment of my Mum. I did hear later that his wife wanted to know what I had done with the money, but there was nothing that I didn't share in my brother's favour. What I gave to my cousin I took from my share.
Reminds me that I need to make a better will but wonder if it is really worth it when you read of some of the awful things that happen even when there is a will.