{"id":207004,"date":"2025-10-12T04:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T04:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/207004\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T04:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T04:22:11","slug":"my-father-in-law-swindles-us-out-of-22800-with-empty-inheritance-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/207004\/","title":{"rendered":"My father-in-law swindles us out of $22,800 with empty inheritance promises"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Minh Ngoc<\/a>\u00a0 &nbspOctober 11, 2025 | 03:12 pm PT\t<\/p>\n

\"My<\/p>\n

\nInheritance disputes can arise between married couples and their in-laws. Illustration photo by Pexels\t<\/p>\n

My husband\u2019s family never told him that a will had already been made and the land documents had been handed over to his youngest sibling instead.\t<\/p>\n

Ten years ago, my father-in-law wrote a will leaving all the family land to his youngest child and his daughter. But instead of telling my husband the truth, he made up a story that the title deed was being held by loan sharks and asked my husband to pay over VND600 million (US$22,800) to help “redeem” it for him, promising that he would leave the plot to my husband.<\/p>\n

Little did we know, he then gave his daughter VND500 million as business capital and given everything to the youngest child<\/a>. My husband\u2019s family kept all of this hidden from him.<\/p>\n

I work in real estate, so I was able to check with the notary office and discover everything. I now know for sure that what my father-in-law said was just an empty promise and he never intended to give my husband even a single square meter of land.<\/p>\n

I am torn about whether I should tell my husband the truth. If I say something, I fear it will cause a rift between him and his father and family. But if I keep quiet, I feel frustrated and taken advantage of by my in-laws.<\/p>\n

What should I do?<\/p>\n

*This story was submitted by a reader and translated into English with the assistance of AI. Readers\u2019 views are personal and do not necessarily match VnExpress\u2019 viewpoints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Minh Ngoc\u00a0 &nbspOctober 11, 2025 | 03:12 pm PT Inheritance disputes can arise between married couples and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[128095,64,63,99,186,128094,184,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-207004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-800-with-empty-inheritance-promises-vnexpress-international","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-finance","13":"tag-my-father-in-law-swindles-us-out-of-22","14":"tag-personal-finance","15":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}