Supporting parents, whether from the perspective of family ethics or law, is the responsibility and obligation of every child.
Conversely, children also have the same inheritance rights in law.
However, in traditional families, especially in rural families, because the daughter is married to the in-law's family, the son takes on most of the responsibility for the elderly, because it is tacitly accepted that the parents' property is for the son.
However, with the increasing legal awareness of modern people, married daughters also want to be able to obtain the same equal opportunities as their brothers.
In the village committee somewhere in Zhejiang, the three brothers and sisters of the Fang family were nervously confronting each other, as if the three of them were not flesh and blood, but enemies with a common hatred.
Sister Fang and Sister Fang sat on the left hand side of the wide yellow wood-grain conference table, their faces sad, and their maternal uncle on the same side.
The second brother Fang, who wore glasses and had a slight Sven temperament, sat on the right hand side, fighting against his sister and uncle by himself.
The invited emotional mediator and the village party secretary sat at the top of the conference table to facilitate the coordination of conflicts between the Fang siblings.
The Fang family's parents only have three children, namely Fang's eldest sister, Fang's second brother and Fang's younger sister.
The contradiction this time is that Second Brother Fang thinks that the plan proposed by his uncle makes him feel very unfair.
In fact, the three siblings of the Fang family had a dispute over how to take care of their sick father's life before, and they reluctantly invited the current mediator at that time.
The result of the mediation at that time was that the three brothers and sisters of the Fang family took turns to take care of their father's daily life, and correspondingly, the property of the old father of the Fang family was divided equally among the three children after a hundred years.
At that time, the three children all agreed to the mediation result, but the sky did not follow people's wishes, and before the three children took turns to take care of them, the old father of the Fang family drove to the west, saving the children the opportunity to work in front of the sickbed.
While everyone was grieving, the eldest uncle of the Fang family proposed: The property of the Fang family should still be divided equally among the three children.
At this time, a person jumped out angrily, pointed to the nose of the uncle of the Fang family and said, "This is not fair to me at all!"
This person is the second brother of Fang. Because of this incident, since then, not only did he not go to his uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings, but he didn't even bother to call his uncle.
The mediator asked Second Brother Fang to verify the authenticity of the matter, and Second Brother Fang simply admitted it. He emphasized again: The premise of dividing the property equally is that all three of us take care of our father, but now my sisters and sisters are not taking care of us, and we have to divide it equally, which is not fair to me at all!
After listening to this, the mediator asked about the specific matters.
When he learned that the old father of the Fang family had been taken care of by the hired nanny before his death, the mediator said: Then you haven't taken care of your father for a day!
But Second Brother Fang said, but my father has been living with me before.
The mediator pointed out the reason directly: from what I knew during the last mediation, the house you live in now already has your parents' share.
When Fang's parents lived with Fang's second brother, the family acquiesced to the fact that this house would be given to Fang's second brother in the future.
And now, when the eldest uncle of the Fang family just proposed that other property should be divided equally among the three children, he was strongly opposed by the second brother Fang.
Speaking of the injustice suffered by her uncle from her younger brother, Sister Fang still feels sad and angry when she thinks about it now.
When the old father of the Fang family died, it was the eldest uncle who was guarding him. At that time, the sisters of the Fang family did not have time to rush to their father's side immediately, so they could only entrust the eldest uncle to help their father make the bed and wipe his body and wear his shroud, and the eldest uncle not only did this, but also waited for the sisters to come over.
Even when the old mother of the Fang family died, it was the eldest uncle who helped to do these aftermaths.
For this reason, the Fang sisters were very grateful for their uncle's kindness, but now the second brother Fang didn't even recognize his uncle, which made her sisters very angry.
The mediator met the eldest uncle of the Fang family when he mediated the maintenance issue of the old father of the Fang family last time, and he was very impressed by the uncle. He thought that the eldest uncle of the Fang family was still very considerate of the nephew of the second brother Fang, and he didn't know what the second brother Fang thought in his heart.
At this time, Sister Fang said that her uncle was fair and loved her brother very much. At the beginning, the uncle considered that his brother-in-law was in charge of his brother's family, and he also said to her two sisters in private: "If your brother encounters difficulties in the future, the money you have distributed will still be used to help your brother." ”
In this regard, the eldest sister and sister Fang agreed, and even the husbands of the two agreed to the proposal of the eldest uncle of the Fang family.
At this time, the eldest uncle of the Fang family said that he had indeed said this, and the two nephews and sons-in-law understood it very well, but now his own nephew did not recognize him.
How could this not make him sad?
After hearing this, the mediator turned his head to face the second brother Fang, hoping that after listening to these words, he would be able to understand the painstaking efforts of his sister and maternal uncle.
But Second Brother Fang didn't accept it, but said: "If I agree to divide the family property equally, then there will definitely be a conflict between me and my wife!"
Second Brother Fang explained that the actions of his uncle and sisters were simply to drive a wedge between his husband and wife, because their actions were simply to guard against his wife's feelings.
The mediator said euphemistically, you may respect your wife more, but your wife is in charge of your family, and your sister is also afraid of your embarrassment and considers it from your point of view.
But Second Brother Fang never agreed, and kept saying that his wife would be unhappy.
Sister Fang saw that her younger brother had been using her brother-in-law as a shield, and she couldn't help but recall her younger brother's brother-in-law's unfilial piety to her parents, so angry that she blurted out: "They are not good to their parents at all!"
Sister Fang said that her father had a stroke and could not take care of herself, and her mother was also seriously ill, and the two old people were accompanied by their own uncle.
But the little uncle is mentally disabled, so he can't be like a normal person.
Once the old mother of the Fang family accidentally fell and lay alone on the ground for a long time, and then the younger brother-in-law opened the door and came in, but did not put down the two bags in her hand for the first time, but instead instructed the little uncle to move the mother.
The little uncle carried it alone for a long time, and finally fell to the ground together with the old mother of the Fang family, and finally had no choice but to call Fang Xiaomei.
And in this process, the younger brother and daughter-in-law never raised a finger.
The mediator asked Second Brother Fang again to verify the truth of the matter, and Second Brother Fang said vaguely: I don't know about the others, but it seems that there is such a thing.
Compared with the calmness of the second brother Fang, Sister Fang cried directly, she said that she was sad when she remembered the difficulty of her parents: "His wife is not good to my parents at all. ”
Fang Xiaomei stood up and said that her sister-in-law really didn't come to help that time, and it was her uncle who was struggling to help from beginning to end, and in the end, it was only after she came that she carried her mother to the bed.
When she asked her brother why her sister-in-law didn't come to help, she said, "Your sister-in-law is carrying something in her hand!"
This made both sisters very angry, but they were helpless.
After hearing this, the mediator was also very angry, and he accused the Fang sisters of favoring his younger brother too much, and they were still looking for reasons for him at this time.
Second Brother Fang said that he had also criticized his wife, but his wife also said that she was carrying things in both hands at that time, and it was not good to come to help carry her mother.
The mediator asked: If it is not your mother who falls, but your mother-in-law, will your wife not help her? No matter how valuable something is in her hand, she will throw it away and help it first!
Second Brother Fang felt weak-hearted, but repeatedly emphasized that he had criticized his wife's inappropriate approach.
The mediator was not angry and said that he was not qualified to criticize Fang's second brother's wife, he just wanted to criticize Fang's second brother fiercely, and the whole responsibility for his wife's doing this was on him.
At this time, Sister Fang talked about another past incident that made her angry, and after finishing speaking, even the village party secretary on the side couldn't sit still.
At the beginning, because of the masks, Sister Fang and Little Sister Fang couldn't go to her brother's house to take care of their parents, so they asked their sister-in-law to take care of their parents more.
But the younger brother and daughter-in-law sent a long series of voices: "You are so capable! If you want you to command me to take care of your father, how old are you!"
"Are you the only one in the world who has an old lady? Why don't you come yourself!"
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The village party secretary could not hide his anger, but he still restrained his emotions. He said that as a bystander, when he heard such a voice, he really couldn't believe how filial Fang's second brother's wife would be to her in-laws.
Seeing that everyone was standing on the opposite side of him, Second Brother Fang didn't bother to explain.
He directly put it up: "You all say that I am not filial, then I have not fulfilled my obligation to support my parents, but things are already like this." ”
The village party secretary said that fortunately, today we are talking about the distribution of the parents' inheritance, rather than asking the three of them to raise money for their parents' medical expenses, otherwise it will be out of control.
Fang's parents also left a self-built house and a deposit of more than 200,000 yuan, which does not include the house where Fang's second brother lives now.
When the topic returned to the distribution of the inheritance, the smell of gunpowder from the three children of the Fang family once again filled the room.
Eldest Sister Fang and Junior Sister Fang said that since Second Brother Fang didn't take them seriously at all, they would definitely not give up their respective inheritance rights.
The eldest uncle of the Fang family said that he proposed 200,000 yuan, and the two sisters of the Fang family would get 50,000 yuan each, and the second brother Fang would get 100,000 yuan.
But the second brother Fang said that he would never agree, or he would go to court with his sister and sister.
The mediator tries to ask him, how do you want it to be distributed, and what is your bottom line?
Second Brother Fang said, how can he think of it now.
The mediator said that considering the friendship between Fang's second brother and his sisters, then he alone accounted for 50 percent, and the two sisters accounted for half.
Second Brother Fang finally said his true thoughts: "I got married, and I came to divide my family property, I have never heard of this!"
It turned out that from beginning to end, what Second Brother Fang hoped was that his parents' family property would be inherited by him alone, and his sisters should not and could not come to rob his family property.
Although this was a result that the mediator did not want to see, in the end, he could only reluctantly say: I hope that Second Brother Fang will not be lost because of money, after all, blood is thicker than water.
This mediation was unsuccessful, although everyone had the idea of thinking about Second Brother Fang, but in Second Brother Fang's opinion, the sister came to "grab" the family property with him, which was ill-intentioned.
Including the uncle who advocated the distribution of the family property to his sisters, he also became a wicked person in the eyes of Second Brother Fang.
I don't know how the court will rule in the end, but it is certain that in the end, the second brother will lose the support of his relatives and affection.