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The Will

Do you split it evenly anyway?

The Will

Your parents leave you sixty percent and your brother forty. No explanation in the will. He has less money than you and two kids. You suspect you know why they did it, and it isn't flattering to him.

Do you split it evenly anyway?

Then ask

  • If you hand him the difference, are you correcting your parents or judging him?
  • What if he never asked and would never know the split?
  • Whose fairness is this about, theirs or yours?

The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.

More at this level

  1. The Pond
  2. The Deathbed Promise
  3. The Windfall
  4. The Payslip
  5. The Ring
  6. The Novel
  7. Who Stays
  8. The Other Table