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Dear Gary,
My mother is 90 years old and widowed. She has three children and has made a will leaving everything split three ways between me and my siblings.
Since Mother made her will, my brother has got divorced.
Mother has given him a lump sum to pay off his mortgage and also paid a sum to his ex-wife to settle the divorce.