I've had trouble with my husband's ex wife and children from that marriage. Not rumourmongering but a hostile takeover campaign. My husband's kids (now in their 30's) coerced him into signing over his entire assets - that is, several houses, all mortgage free - to them. They didn't speak to him for years until he did it - he's a soft-hearted man and just wanted peace in the family, so he gave in to thier demands. I only found out about this a few months ago.
And, now that their dad is ill and his mental faculties deteriorating rapidly so that he is not in a posititon to understand what is going on, the son tried to trick him out of further assets. Luckily I found out in time, got an attorney and we got back at least part of what is ours. His son tricked him into signing over a complete Power of Attorney, which gave him, the son, the right to my husband's entire finances. He could go to the bank and empty our account, if he wanted! Also full rights over him as a patient - the right to put him in a care home, for instance. My attorney got that cancelled as well.
Meanwhile, we are living in a home with a huge mortgage, cutting my husband's pension by more than half!
But I refuse to get my knickers in a twist over this. I think they will not be happy in their big fat houses. Already the son has a drink problem. Once he called me up in the middle of the night and abused me in a drunken fit - horrible name-calling, including racial ones. I kept my cool and he quieted down. But I have to say, the way they have tried to trick their own father out of everything he owns sickens me - especially now that he is ill. Some people have no shame.
Even my husband's mother, who refused to speak to me for 16 years, has now switched sides and is speaking to me, because she has noticed how evil the son is.