{"id":40166,"date":"2026-02-23T00:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=40166"},"modified":"2026-02-23T00:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:40:28","slug":"10-stories-that-show-what-happens-when-you-stop-being-the-family-atm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=40166","title":{"rendered":"10 Stories That Show What Happens When You Stop Being the Family ATM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After my\u00a0parents divorced, my\u00a0older brother and sister lived with my\u00a0dad. I\u00a0was raised by\u00a0my\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brightside.me\/articles\/i-refused-to-babysit-and-brought-my-grandson-back-home-im-not-my-dils-employee-843074\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">grandma<\/a>. She was everything to\u00a0me. When she passed, she left me\u00a0her house and $70,000 in\u00a0savings.<br>For two years, I\u00a0kept helping my\u00a0siblings, believing we\u2019re blood and money should be\u00a0shared. Then my\u00a0dad showed\u00a0up. The man\u00a0I barely saw growing\u00a0up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>He\u00a0said, \u201cYour grandmother would have wanted you to\u00a0sell this house and split the money between the entire family. It\u2019s only fair.\u201d I\u00a0said I\u2019d think about\u00a0it.<br>That night, my\u00a0brother called. He\u00a0said he\u2019d already spoken to\u00a0a\u00a0real estate agent about listing the house. They had it\u00a0all planned before my\u00a0dad even walked through my\u00a0door.<br>So\u00a0I\u00a0made a\u00a0decision. I\u00a0transferred the house into a\u00a0trust so\u00a0it\u00a0could never be\u00a0sold or\u00a0divided. The savings went into an\u00a0account only\u00a0I could access. Everything was locked down and legally untouchable.<br>When I\u00a0told them, my\u00a0dad said, \u201cYou\u2019re dead to\u00a0this family.\u201d Well, I\u2019ve been dead to\u00a0this family since\u00a0I was five. So\u00a0I\u00a0didn\u2019t lose much.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my\u00a0parents divorced, my\u00a0older brother and sister lived with my\u00a0dad. I\u00a0was raised by\u00a0my\u00a0grandma. She was everything to\u00a0me. When she passed, she left me\u00a0her house and $70,000 in\u00a0savings.For&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":93,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40168,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40166\/revisions\/40168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}