My husband has an older brother who is 2 years his senior. Since my husband and I reside removed from his mother and father’ hometown and our steady employment gives us with modest incomes, his mother and father granted us VND1 billion (US$40,000) to help in buying a house. We financed the rest by a mortgage and intend to maneuver again to my husband’s hometown as soon as we get older.
The brothers had beforehand concurred that they’d settle for any resolution their mother and father made concerning the distribution of belongings, even when it meant receiving nothing, with out objection.
My husband is beneficiant by nature and by no means calls for something from his mother and father. However, his brother has benefited considerably from their mother and father’ monetary assist in each his skilled and private life. He has even withdrawn cash instantly from their secure, a transfer we’ve beforehand not criticized.
My husband’s brother lately introduced that he had allotted their mother and father’ belongings between himself and my husband within the following method: the lands within the district, valued between VND5-6 billion, had been his. He additionally declared possession of the residential property the place their mother and father reside, valued at VND20 billion. Moreover, he claimed possession of the household’s forested land value VND1 billion, agricultural land valued at VND500 million, and a bit of land in a chosen resettlement space at the moment value VND2 billion.
Consequently, all that remained for my husband and me was a parcel of land valued at roughly VND1 billion.
Had the asset division been undertaken by my parents-in-law, we might have abided by their resolution. Nonetheless, the division was orchestrated by my husband’s brother, which drastically disturbs me. My husband can be deeply disheartened however chooses to stay quiet to protect household peace, planning to debate the matter together with his mother and father at an applicable time.
It’s vital to focus on that my parents-in-law are nonetheless vigorous, function a thriving enterprise, and will not be reliant on their offspring. The belongings talked about by my brother-in-law are nonetheless underneath his mother and father’ possession, and he hasn’t managed to safe any further property on his personal.
Ought to I strategy my parents-in-law about this markedly unfair division made by my husband’s brother, although I’m merely their daughter-in-law?