Reply #8: Dad doesn't have anything left to will to anyone

[Sydnie]

The house that they were purchasing was going into foreclosure before he discovered that he was ill. He was hoping that they would take it and get it off his back. As I stated before, he had begun the process of divorcing her as she had run through all their money (buying drugs according to him) and he was working 80-90 hours a week just to keep body and soul together for the kids. Once he found out he was ill and couldn't work, the people where he worked pooled their sick time and vacation time so he would continue to get a paycheck for several months. They had a fund raiser for him and THEY controlled the money so she didn't take it and blow it. He has a truck that he still owes quite a bit on and they have already repossessed the van that she drove. His friends from work went together to get him a pay as you go phone and support him with minutes for it so he could continue to have a way for the doctors to communicate with him during his treatment. He has a life insurance policy that he has changed the beneficiary over to his sister from the whack wife so that his burial will be paid for and what little will be left once the estate is settled will be divided up among the kids. The current plan is to see that the kids are taken care of with whack wife having as little access to the funds as possible.

Where there some real property to supplement these kids there wouldn't be as dire a need to seek other kinds of assistance. But, there is nothing. And what little there might be, whack wife will probably dispose of to support her own habits.

It's a most sad situation, even more so for their kids then it is for my roomies son. She only has the one to get through college. Whack wife has 4 and I would bet dollars to donuts that college isn't even in the plan for any of those kids. That's sad, isn't it?