{"id":73578,"date":"2025-10-12T09:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T09:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/73578\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T09:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T09:40:13","slug":"my-father-in-law-swindles-us-out-of-22800-with-empty-inheritance-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/73578\/","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":73579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[57801,138,246,57800,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":{"0":"post-73578","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-business","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-my-father-in-law-swindles-us-out-of-22","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-personal-finance","16":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}