Chapter 3 - Father Left Two Different Documents
My father, Theodore Grant, died seven months earlier.
He left behind real estate, investment accounts, factories, and controlling voting rights in Grant Industrial Holdings.
The version Marcus presented to the family gave him nearly everything connected to the company.
I received cash assets and several properties.
On paper, the division looked unequal but believable.
Father had trained Marcus for leadership.
At least that was the story everyone repeated.
Then Rebecca found an old billing entry from Father’s longtime estate attorney.
It referenced a codicil drafted two weeks before Father entered hospice.
The probate file contained a codicil carrying that same date.
The attorney’s archive did not contain the filed version.
That was the first crack.
The second was worse.
One witness listed on the filed codicil had died eight months before the supposed signing date.
When I quietly told Rebecca, she told me not to confront Marcus yet.
Then came the dinner.
Then Marcus heard me whisper:
May you like
“He forged the will.”
And everything exploded.
