UPDATE Wife Died In Accident & Have To Sue Her Family For Taking Things While I'm Gone RELATIONSHIPS

My wife died suddenly in an accident that critically injured our son. Suffice it to say, along with being shattered, the whole matter has me rather preoccupied.

Her family arrived rather quickly and “took charge” of a lot of things, especially the funeral. It was helpful because my focus needed to be on my son. I was pretty much a guest at my own wife’s funeral, because although I was there for a brief while, it was on a day when my son was scheduled for a rather serious procedure, and so my time was divided. All the while, I could hear Suzanne (my wife) in my mind telling me to take care of Zach and not worry about the formalities. So, I basically just gave my in-laws my checkbook. I’m not complaining about that.

What happened next is different. They wanted to take some of her things, and of course I understood the value in them having a keepsake of their sister/daughter – I would never have said no. But they took everything. Keep in mind, I wasn’t there – my younger son wasn’t in the house at the time either. The next time I was home, I realized that they basically cleaned the house out of everything they thought was hers, including photobooks. Hours before this, my wife’s older sister even went so far as to say she wanted to take PJ, my younger son, saying I needed time, and that he would be better with them. I shut that down before she ever finished the idea, though I tried not to let my anger show.

In the immediate, my feeling was “I’m not going to deal with this right now”. I simply didn’t have the time or bandwidth to deal with it then.

Not long after, my wife’s sister called asking about several pieces of jewelry, claiming them as “heirlooms” to the family.

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