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When step-parents control access to family history after death

My father died last month and my stepmother immediately changed all the locks and will not let me get my childhood photos from the house where I grew up.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Death can activate territorial instincts that override previous informal agreements about belonging and shared memory.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Family governance and wealth succession?”

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