This will be the last post in this series as I am starting the new year fresh and its time to leave this behind. *** Having both parents gone as adults feels so peculiar. A junior high school friend had also recently lost her dad and handling his estate described it best, she said that Continue reading

The attorney began our session with asking, “why did your mom do this?” And all I could say was that DW got in her ear. And she attempted to console me by saying no matter what I did or say I couldn’t compete against DW’s daily indoctrination. The stunning truth was that Māmā grew not Continue reading

I maintained enough pleasantries to leaving with a copy of all Māmā’s legal documents from my end of September visit. Over the next 3 weeks I had to reach out to five different local law firms before I found an attorney who genuinely wanted to provide substantive answers rather than collecting a large retainer and Continue reading

Māmā had not given me a copy of her Last Will and Testament despite me asking multiple times. She certainly did not provide me with a copy of the mysterious Family Trust. At no point did anyone offer me any information as if I should blindly trust them because they said so. Under the guise Continue reading

SEPTEMBER 6, 2025 at 4:15 pm MY EMAIL RESPONSE AW, First of all, you called me twice on Friday, Sep 5th – 8:48 am & 8:51 am. Then you called me at 7:02 pm the same day. I didn’t respond within 17 hours and can hardly be considered as ‘non-responsive.’  Second, my brother and I just lost our mother, and I Continue reading