Bullying is not an acceptable form of familial communication. Unfortunately, he’s made it clear that he is not interested in respecting the agreement that you’ve made or the line you’ve drawn. You may even need to formally cut off contact with him and talk to your sister about how you two can maintain your relationship away from him.

He says we should have split it to “level the retirement playing field.” In other words, I should have declined my inheritance to give my sisters a retirement financially equivalent to what my husband and I have.

My two sisters and I split his estate equally and have finally closed the estate. From the start, my older sister’s husband protested that we should not split the estate equally. He says we should have split it to “level the retirement playing field.