Dear Richard Madeley: ‘Our late aunt’s will is driving my brothers and I apart’

telegraph.co.uk:

— Anon, DorsetBloody wills and last testaments! They’re the source of more resentment and family discord than pretty much anything else.

And now you’ve been duly sucked into that timeless wormhole of angst, anger, antipathy and antagonism. I do sympathise.OK, let’s try to unpick this, starting with your aunt’s bequests.

Anon, like the rest of us, you have no control whatsoever over what relatives decide to do with their estates. Your aunt could have left everything to the local cats’ home, or her postman, or, I don’t know, Nigel Farage.

There’s just no point second-guessing her intentions or wishes. She just did what she did. Her dosh, her decision.Now let’s move on to your brothers.