“I Don’t Feel Even Slightly Guilty”: Woman Gets Epic Revenge On Step-Monster By Bleeding Her Dry

Blended families are complicated, especially where money is concerned. Adult children and stepparents often clash over a deceased parent’s estate. In fact, the problem is so common, that half of all estate disputes are between adult kids and their father’s most recent wife.

Such was the case for these adult children, who brought their stepmother before a judge to explain where the money from their father’s business went. The daughter, who had experience in the legal field, concocted a revenge so multi-layered and diabolical it would make the Count of Monte Cristo blush. She laid out her plan to bankrupt the step-monster for netizens to delight in, and delight they did.

A woman came up with a brilliant and elaborate plan to bankrupt her stepmother

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She used the power of the U.S. legal system to get back the money the step-monster stole from their deceased father’s business

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Relationships between a stepmother and her stepchildren are almost always troublesome

This isn’t the first and certainly not the last story about a stepmother fighting her adult stepchildren for her late husband’s estate or inheritance money. But why are these stories so prevalent? Is the evil stepmother trope really true, and is this the real-life evidence of it?

Veteran litigator and advocate Michael Hackard explains that the issue is more complex. First of all, there are many more widows than there are widowers. We rarely hear about stories where adult children are suing their stepfathers for inheritance money, do we?

As of 2022, there have been 3.7 million widowers in the U.S. In contrast, the number of widows was a whopping 11.6 million. Life expectancy has a lot to do with it, mainly because women live around six years longer than men on average. What’s more, only 20% of stepchildren report feeling closer to their stepmothers.

Hackard gives more reasons why the stepmothers and stepchildren tend to disagree and battle it out in court for the husband’s estate:

• The marriage was short.
• The stepmother favored some children over others.
• The marriage was a result of an affair.
• The stepmother had undue influence over a father who had dementia and wasn’t able to make the right financial decisions.

Researchers Mavis Hetherington and Constance Ahrons also argued that the first wife and mother plays a huge role in the relationship between a stepmother and the stepchildren. The stepchildren, Hetherington explained, become proxies for the mother in the household of the father and the stepmother.

Thus, the stepmom becomes a step-monster because the kids express solidarity with their mother in this way, and sometimes even unconsciously. Children feel less internal conflict about betraying their dad, and that’s why stepfathers usually have an easier time than stepmothers.

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Although the process was long and complicated, the daughter says it was totally worth it

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The commenters were certainly impressed “I applaud you for your diligence in giving that heifer what she deserves!”

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