When siblings fight over inheritance years after parents’ death

A man sued his siblings because he was upset at not given a share of his family's properties. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: ISTOCKPHOTO
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Fights over how family assets are shared out in a will are all too common, but when resentment has been festering for 30 years, the fallout will be even more bitter than usual.

This was the sorry tale that played out here when a man who felt he got a raw deal in the inheritance stakes dragged his siblings to court around three decades after the patriarch died.

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