This woman and her husband are in their late forties and recently got married just before the COVID-19 pandemic began.
They had both been married before and, due to their age, do not plan on having any children together. However, they both have two children from their previous marriages.
Her husband has a daughter who is currently away at college and a sixteen-year-old son who primarily lives with his birth mother. She also has two younger children, who are fourteen and twelve, and who still live with her and her husband at home.
Anyway, her husband’s great-uncle sadly passed away this year. And following the death, her husband inherited a gently used GMC SUV.
“I don’t know a ton about cars, but I know that car is a 2017, and I have seen used ones with low mileage go for nearly twenty thousand dollars online– sometimes more,” she revealed.
The real issue, though, is that her husband wants to give the car to his sixteen-year-old son. Her husband apparently believes the car would be a perfect gift and plans to go through with it no matter what she says.
But, she thinks it is ridiculous to give her stepson this car, considering how much money it is worth. Instead, she thinks that the only fair thing to do would be to sell the call for as much as they can. Then, split the profit evenly amongst all four children.
“That way, everyone can benefit– not just my stepson, who happens to be sixteen years old,” she said.
After she brought this idea up to her husband, though, he was apparently pretty mean to her and claimed that she had zero say on the matter.
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He also noted that the car was his great-uncle’s and that it was given to him– not the family.
On top of that, her husband pointed out how his son works an after-school job. So, giving his son the car would help relieve some stress since she, her husband, and her husband’s ex all have to take turns chauffeuring her stepson to and from work.
Honestly, though, she just thinks that her husband’s reasoning is outrageous. She believes that since her stepson is only sixteen, he should first get a starter car– not one worth twenty grand.
And if her husband went through with her plan of divvying up the car sale proceeds, she is confident that her stepson would walk away with between four and five thousand dollars.
Then, she thinks that amount of money would be more than enough to purchase a starter car.
Still, even though her husband agrees with her technical logic, he just does not want to do that. Instead, he would much rather keep the car in the family and give it to his son– something that she just cannot understand.
“I am stressed because my husband is basically telling me that he is going to do what he wants, and I don’t get a say,” she vented.
“Aren’t a husband and wife supposed to come to agreements together?”
Her husband is perhaps not being too unreasonable, though, and said that if she had a relative leave behind an inheritance, she would be the sole person in charge of deciding how that money gets spent.
To be honest, though, she does not want that to be the standard in their household. She thought that after getting married, they would make financial decisions as a joint unit.
But regardless of her own perspective, her husband refuses to budge.
In fact, he even said that if she really wanted to sell the car, he would still purchase his son a car of equal value using funds from their joint bank account.
So now, she has been left wondering if trying to dictate what her husband does with his inheritance was a jerky thing to do or not.
When one partner inherits money or valuables from a deceased family member, is it up to that partner to decide what happens to it or the couple as a whole? Do you think she has a right to be in on the car decision or not? If you were in her shoes, how would you feel?
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