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Dad promises $15,000 towards a down payment on his 28-year-old daughter's first house, but when he changes his mind at the last minute, she refuses to give the money back: 'We lose the house and thousands in fees'

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‘Over a missed WhatsApp message’: Woman accidentally forgets to wish her 4-year-old niece a happy birthday on the family group chat, gets snubbed by the girl's mom, then fights fire with fire at the next family event

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Late Aunt Bea leaves her entire estate to her beloved dog, waging an inheritance battle between her niece and nephew, who both cared for the pooch in his elder years: ‘He ditched the dog’

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'It's beginning to exhaust me': Aunt babysits her sister's 3 and 6-year-old 3x per week, then sets healthy boundaries after realizing her family is taking advantage of her; chaos ensues

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UPDATE: 'They have only been dating for 4 months': In-laws try to force a bride to allow her Golden Child brother-in-law's new girlfriend's baby to be in the bridal party, divisive chaos ensues when the couple refuses

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17-year-old forced to move to another country when her “wicked stepmother” denies her move-in request, blaming her history of rampant theft: ‘I don’t want her unsupervised in our home’

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28-year-old goes no contact with her parents after they cut off her 8-year-old daughter's eyelashes while babysitting, chaos ensues when the stepmom calls the child a liar: ‘Marie woke up with pink eye’

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UPDATE: Childhood friend's family tries to sabotage a man's marriage to help their daughter win him back, so he cuts ties with them and saves his marriage, putting his wife first: 'I was ready to fight'

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'You're an adult, figure it out': Estranged 24-year-old refuses to financially support his parents after they kicked him out of the house as a teen, matching their energy with cold spite

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'They tore open $40 worth of raw hamburger meat': UPDATE: Mom's untrained dogs are uninvited from the family lake house trip, but when she brings them anyway, chaos ensues

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17-year-old boy refuses to shave his head after his 7-year-old cousin's cancer diagnosis, then his aunt corners him with sheers in-hand: ‘[My hair] is pretty much the only thing about myself I love’

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25-year-old brother revokes his $2000 pledge towards his sister's wedding when she uninvites him for making a joke about the groom: 'If I'm not good enough for her wedding, then my money isn't either'

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‘I’ve always been ‘Auntie’… that’s all she ever knew': Investigative 25-year-old unearths proof that her biological mother is her mom's best friend, who helped her parents with their infertility; family drama ensues

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'They're losing their free help': Aunt and uncle expect their adopted 19-year-old niece to be the unofficial caregiver for troubled foster kids, so she moves out

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Stepmother demands custody of her estranged 16-year-old stepson so she can have help babysitting his half-siblings; he refuses: 'She said she raised me for 9 years and should be allowed to 'keep me''

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Twin gets snubbed out of his brother's engagement celebrations and repeatedly left out of family events after moving to Portland, so he skips the wedding entirely: 'I was only invited for optics'

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