Can a person purchase a home from her own family trust? Problem: my friend's dad died a few months ago and left his estate plus the family home in a trust set up for his 3 adult kids. My friend and her sister want to buy the house from the family estate (their brother is against this and wants to sell it "as is" on the open market) but they are running into a problem as their lawyer and others say you can't buy a house from "yourself." Can this be true? We live in Illinois. Thank you.
posted on May 22, 2008 - 12 answers

Have any of you (as adults) purchased a communal house to share with your siblings? Any tidbits of information? Wise words of wisdom? [more inside]
posted on May 14, 2008 - 10 answers

My mother recently told me I'm her favorite child. How can I deal with the guilt? [more inside]
posted on Jan 14, 2008 - 41 answers

Why would siblings who don't know they're siblings be attracted to each other? [more inside]
posted on Jan 12, 2008 - 28 answers

Short version: do I just buy a phone and press it on my increasingly reclusive, phoneless, living-alone but working, 71-year-old father? Longer: [more inside]
posted on Dec 7, 2007 - 14 answers

[family squabble filter]: My brother is convinced that a human could survive by consuming nothing but blood from other humans. I want to prove him wrong without actually testing his theory. [more inside]
posted on Sep 10, 2007 - 21 answers

My uncle recently sent me some money through my sister. And just as she always has done, she's frittered it away and I'll never see a cent of it. I don't really care because I'm used to it, and I don't care for the money either. But how can I warn my uncle without giving off a "Give me more money" message? [more inside]
posted on Aug 20, 2007 - 12 answers

How can I deal with my resentment towards my two older sisters (preferably without confronting them)? (long) [more inside]
posted on Jul 26, 2007 - 18 answers

Leaving Money to Drug Addicts Filter: My parents have re-written their will, which leaves all of their assets equally to myself and my step-brother. Considering that my step-brother is a drug addict (we also believe that he is a dealer, though he has yet to be arrested as such, so we don't know for sure), this becomes very complicated. [more inside]
posted on Feb 6, 2007 - 35 answers

How can I help my underachieving older brother? [more inside]
posted on Jul 10, 2006 - 25 answers

Are my sister and I the world's first "Brother Sister Blog Team" or has it been done before? Personally, I haven't been able to find any. [more inside]
posted on Mar 7, 2006 - 13 answers

How can I convince my parents to move to a retirement community? [more inside]
posted on Dec 17, 2005 - 17 answers

Advice for how to stop a 2.5 year old boy from annihilating his 1 year old sister. [more inside]
posted on Dec 14, 2005 - 18 answers

I'm trying to find a book that I read when I was in grade school, sometime during the mid to late 80's. The basic plot involved a girl scaring her impressionable young step(?) brother by pretending to go into trances and make predictions. IIRC, she was somewhat of an outcast at school, but had recently been cast in the school play as a colonial witch (Tituba perhaps?). I think there may have also been some references in the book to the Sybills of ancient Greece (hence the trances). Is this ringing any bells? [more inside]
posted on Nov 27, 2005 - 13 answers

Advice wanted on how to use a carrot (instead of a stick) to reduce a bunch of very frustrating behavioral issues with our 5 year old... [more inside]
posted on Sep 1, 2005 - 11 answers

If you have siblings, do you think there's anything your parents did or didn't do that had a big effect on how you relate to your sib(s) today? My kids' futures hinge on your answer. [more inside]
posted on Feb 17, 2005 - 34 answers

Was your toddler present at the birth of his or her sibling(s)?
posted on May 26, 2004 - 19 answers