Woman inherits aunt goods after taking care of the dog and leaving brother upset

A woman turns to the Reddit community for advice after an emotional fall with her brother over their late aunt inheritance.

In a post that is shared to Popular forumThe anonymous 30-year-old writes that her aunt Bea left everything she had for her, even though she originally thought it for someone else.

“This is long but the details are necessary for the whole picture,” she begins. While using false names for everyone in the story, there is an exception: Troy, “The Goodest Boy”, an older dog who became a family after Moster Bea lost his only son more than 15 years ago.

“Troy became her son in a four leg,” she writes, adding, “she liked him more than any of us or someone in general.” The poster explains that Aunt Bea spoiled Troy endlessly, and the band between them was deep and undeniable.

Everything changed in February last year when Aunt Bea was hospitalized after complications from a knee change. “It just started a snowball with other health problems and eventually took her in October,” shares the woman.

At the time of Bea’s hospital stay, the woman’s brother, John, took Troy in. “John did absolutely everything for him for the first three months until he moved in with his boyfriend,” she says, but adds that when John moved, pets were not allowed – so Troy stayed with her.

“John worked near the house, so would stay 2-3 times a week to make some of the ridiculous extra aunt Bea demanded,” she explains. But apart from these visits, Troy’s daily care was entirely up to her.

“He was seriously the best dog ever and old as dirt, so I did my absolute best to follow Moster Bea’s request for Troy,” she writes. “I really tried to give him the best for the rest of his life without his mother.”

Almost a year later, Troy died. “My children and I took it harder than I thought we would,” she admits. She made a memorial in the garden and buried his ashes with Aunt Bea and honored one of her last wishes.

That, she thought, was the end of it. “Or so I thought,” she continues, revealing that a lawyer briefly after Troy’s passing was a lawyer to her about Aunt Bea’s estate.

“I go through meeting the lawyer about everything she had, and she didn’t have much,” explains the poster. Bea had worked with various receptionist and secretary jobs and lived in an assistant accommodation in its recent years, which would have been “crazy expensive.”

Still, what was left of her property – but modest – was left to the woman. “I literally had no idea,” she says. “I didn’t know what happened to her property and I didn’t really care.”

However, John cared. And he wasn’t happy. “John knew we were in line. Or expected to be in line,” she writes, explaining that aunt Bea during one of his hospital visits, told him that everything would go to the one who cared about Troy, and at that time it was him.

But after he moved out and left Troy in her care, things changed. And when he found out that she got the legacy, “he ripped out,” she says. “Calling me a mooch, spreading lies about my care for Troy and other disgusting things that just aren’t true.”

The woman says she and John have not talked for over a month. “He still smeats my name to everyone who will listen,” she writes, adding that she uses the inheritance to help her family finally move forward financially.

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“I take what Moster Bea left me to get my little family just a little forward for the first time,” she explains. But the excitement remains heavy, and she ends her post with the question that started everything: “So I ask, Aitah for claiming her legacy?”

Comments were divided. “It really sounds like it should be split 50/50,” wrote a person. “You get it on a technique so I guess if you don’t care about your relationship with your brother, keep everything.”

But others saw it differently. “John did it for, what, 3 months?” asked another commentator. “And then you made the rest for another 9? It sounds like you fulfilled your aunt’s wishes and John didn’t.”

At the moment the woman remains in her decision and holds on to the belief that she honored aunt Bea – and Troy – in the best way she could.