Like I said it was not about the money. Their dad told them things that they later found out were not true. He either lied to them or his wishes were not carried out. As for the life insurance. It was changed at a time he was VERY sick and on lots of pain medication. The truck was worth $25,000. It was given to a friend over his kids. If the wife had kept it, that would have been a whole different story. Would have been understandable. The main thing is that our kids felt as if they had never existed.
His wife, friends, and even his co workers were mentioned. But not his kids.
Especially our daughter wanted her dad to be a part of her life. She was always thinking about him. She was doing ok financially till she had a few health problems a couple years ago. He dad was a big fan of this one country music star. Our daughter knew it. About 5 years ago at her job she came into contact with this star. She told him what a big fan her dad was. This star gave her tickets and back stage passes for her and her dad to go.
When he met wife close to 3 years ago. Then married her a few months later. She rarely got to see him. The wife admitted he always talked about the concert our daughter got him tickets for.
And he really was very gullible. ANYONE could tell him a big wopper of a lie that could not possible be true and he would believe it. He would believe anything anyone told him. I was always having to explain things to him.
I think what they are hurting about is the fact there was no mention of them at the funeral.
They will probably not even get back pictures their dad had of them. The Wife will probably just trash them.
They would love to just have something to remember their dad by. But they have nothing but memories.
My daughter said they were told they were getting nothing at the funeral. She said she said nothing and just walked away. They did not want to make a scene.