{"id":648023,"date":"2026-06-19T23:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T23:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648023\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T23:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T23:56:19","slug":"parasite-son-handed-265000-bill-after-losing-inheritance-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648023\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Parasite\u2019 son handed \u00a3265,000 bill after losing inheritance battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A \u201cparasite\u201d son has been ordered out of his home and handed a \u00a3265,000 bill after losing an inheritance battle with his siblings.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2026\/04\/20\/siblings-battle-parasite-brother-600k-inheritance-row\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Chung<\/a>, 62, claimed he was promised that he would inherit his parents\u2019 three-bedroom home because he moved back in while he was in his 30s to care for them in their old age.<\/p>\n<p>His father, Victor, died in 1998 and his mother, Irene, in 2016, but because she had no will, her \u00a3600,000 estate was to be split equally between Robert and his siblings, Marina Bennett, an accountant, and Richard Chung, an IT boss.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chung sued to claim the entire house, which the court heard would have left \u201cno significant assets\u201d to share with his siblings.<\/p>\n<p>They fought back, calling him a \u201cparasite\u201d and \u201cfinancial drain\u201d on their parents, and claiming that he lounged around \u201cwatching movies non-stop\u201d while his mother cooked and cleaned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u201cparasite\u201d son has been ordered out of his home and handed a \u00a3265,000 bill after losing an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,145692,2506,4176,388,50,4174,4175,5438,56,225,54,55],"class_list":["post-648023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-court-cases","tag-essex","tag-finance","tag-london","tag-news","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-standard","tag-uk","tag-uk-news","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}