My wife wants to buy her late mother’s home, but her siblings won’t let her. Oracle’s stock is falling as investors fear a data-center setback My wife wants to buy her late mother’s home, but her siblings won’t let her. Four siblings — two brothers and two sisters — had grown up in that home.
The plan was to sell the house and divide the proceeds equally among them. My wife was the only sibling who expressed an interest in keeping the house in the family. We proposed buying the house at the price the siblings had agreed, with each receiving an equal share.
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Aditi Shrikant is a personal-finance reporter at MarketWatch who writes the Dollar Signs advice column. Previously, she was a lead reporter at CNBC's "Make It" covering relationships and psychology. Before that, she reported on consumer spending and transportation at Vox.com.
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