Family conflicts about money and inheritance have a way of exposing fault lines no one knew were there. That’s exactly what happened to our reader, whose family pushed a future daughter-in-law to sign a strict prenup — a demand that ended with a shocking revelation and turned the entire family dynamic upside down.
My brother’s fiancée has a little boy from a previous marriage. When my family found out, they immediately freaked out and pushed her to sign a prenup — one that basically said her kid gets nothing, and only the children she and my brother would have together would ever inherit. They said it was all about “protecting the family legacy.”