After my grandfather on my mother’s side passed away, it sent a ripple effect through the entire family. Few of us were expecting what happened, but even fewer were expecting what was about to transpire. He died with a significant degree of money in the bank and assets in his ownership. His estate was worth 25 million dollars, but nearly all of it was pilfered by his second wife. She’s the same age as my mom, and is the homewrecker who threw the final blow to my grandparent’s 25 year marriage. It might sound crazy, but my grandfather said he was in fear of his life just months before he passed away. We found out that he had pneumonia and his wife had refused any medical care for him. She let him suffocate to death so she could finally get the money she had been after for 30 years. When we tried to fight her in court, she hired a high profile criminal attorney to defend her in a family estate dispute. Who hires a criminal attorney to settle an estate dispute? I felt like that showed her true colors. Sadly, she prevailed. She paid off my mother’s attorneys and my disabled and bed ridden mother was left with next to nothing. This isn’t a fantasy, this actually happened to my family and I. I pray there is karma in this world, because that woman deserves to be sitting in a jail cell. But the thing is, I don’t think anything will ever come of it. It’s how the world works—you either wield money and power, or you’re a second class citizen to those who do. When they have enough money to buy out lawyers, there’s no fighting. And there’s no one in this world who can punish someone who is essentially so rich they are beyond the law.