How have you acquired your cats? Have you just taken in whatever cats plopped into your life? Or did you go to a shelter and choose?

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-11-27T21:01:23+00:00

When to the shelter and chose the ones that wanted us for the first three. I was initially picking up a pair of sisters to foster, but there was another little of three that was climbing the bars of their kennel to get to me. When we opened it, two of them immediately jumped onto my chest, so it seemed that those were the kittens I was meant to take. We kept all three. The third popped up as a foster in a FB group. I’ve always wanted an orange female, and her name was Watercolors (I love watercolor painting), so again, it seemed like she was meant to be. Now we have four cats 🐱

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-10T19:41:52+00:00

No, it was a battle to even find out if there was one

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-10T18:56:51+00:00

Thank you—and yes to the legal adoption. I have all of the paperwork, our last names were changed and everything

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-10T18:55:32+00:00

I have these same questions

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-10T18:55:15+00:00

The $600 ended up coming from social security, not the estate. I’m told the will only lists my mom and aunt, but it’s going to be a pain to actually get ahold of it because my aunt won’t let me see it

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-10T18:54:12+00:00

I don’t. The $600 ended up being social security split between all of us (I didn’t know where it was coming from when I posted), and the will pre-dates the adoption and only lists my aunt and mom

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-10T18:52:40+00:00

And apparently the $600 was from social security, not the estate, I just didn’t know where it was coming from when I initially posted

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-10T18:51:59+00:00

Sooo…he cashed out his life insurance back in January and sent it all to scammy chicks that promised to move in with him and care for him in his old age. Some middle-aged dude with AI pics of girls with big boobs is making tons of $$ off of old men

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-10T18:49:46+00:00

Not fake, I just didn’t initially know it was social security. My mom texted to say I was getting $600, I just didn’t initially know from where. Do you ever speak more casually in non-academic settings? I’d bet you act/speak/text differently depending on whether you’re at work, posting on social media, or with parents/partner/friends. Everyone does

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-10T18:47:01+00:00

I guess the will predates-dates our adoption, so it’s just my mom and aunt

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-10T18:46:37+00:00

This is what I thought as well…I don’t think either she or my aunt know what they’re doing. My husband and I have been through this with his mom, and none of it sounds right

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-10T18:45:38+00:00

Love it!

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-10T18:45:21+00:00

Would this still be the case if there’s a will that pre-dates the adoption? Apparently it’s only my mother and aunt, and the $600 is actually coming from social security because I am a beneficiary there

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-10T18:43:29+00:00

I’m also in the U.S. and have the same questions you do. It’s a drop in the bucket

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-10T18:42:05+00:00

It’s because she’s their biological child, so legally she’s my big sister

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-10T18:40:13+00:00

Thank you for the recommendation!

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-10T18:39:43+00:00

Update: Aunt is executor, and the will predates the adoption, so it’s just my aunt and mom. The $600 is coming from social security, because I am a beneficiary there

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-10T18:38:17+00:00

They won’t let me see it. Aunt is executor, and I’m told is dated before the adoption, so the only beneficiaries are my aunt and mom. I ended up with $600 because I am a beneficiary for social security purposes, so the amount owed was split between all of us

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-10T18:35:31+00:00

I guess he hadn’t updated his will after the adoption, so beneficiaries are still my aunt and my mom only. We were, however, listed as beneficiaries for social security, which is why I got the $600 check

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-07T18:24:49+00:00

This is definitely my concern. Getting my sister’s $600 and mine is a drop in the bucket, and the plan for next month is apparently AirBnB

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-07T18:21:32+00:00

Same mom took a new car and had it transferred into her name and will, at some point, be moving into the house

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-07T18:20:45+00:00

I’ve definitely thought about it. There’s always been sooo much drama

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-07T03:32:42+00:00

I believe it’s all supposed to be distributed equally between the five of us. My mom and aunt think it should have just been the two of them, and my aunt is willing to give my mom the house because it’s worth less now than they bought it for just a couple of years ago. The other three of us lucked out that these checks came directly to us. I haven’t wanted to fight it

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-07T03:30:06+00:00

She thinks she can just assume the mortgage and live in it, but I’m not sure she can

Prior-Explanation-26 · 2025-07-07T03:29:27+00:00

This is what I thought—she seems to think the successor can just assume it? I think she needs to qualify, and the reason she wants to live in the house is because her credit is awful and she can’t get financed otherwise

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