Chapter 16 - GRANDMOTHER EVELYN’S MEMO
Martin found a memorandum written by Evelyn seven years before her death.
Not legally controlling.
Explanatory.
She had noticed the pattern.
Charles has always treated Rachel’s competence as evidence she requires less support and Lisa’s difficulty as evidence she requires more.
My throat tightened.
Evelyn continued:
Helping Lisa is not itself unfair. Treating Rachel’s capacity as a family resource is.
I read it again.
Then:
No descendant should be compelled to subsidize another branch because the latter has already consumed its own allocation.
There.
She had predicted us.
Even more directly:
Future child beneficiary accounts should be separately reviewed to prevent adult family dynamics from passing downward.
Owen.
May you like
His seventh-birthday audit existed partly because Evelyn did not trust us to keep siblings’ problems away from grandchildren.
Smart woman.
