Don't be such a jerk....as I said the estate was small...we don't need the money...but maybe someday his grandchild will. Now it will just be pissed away by the ner do well child. Not to mention some nice furniture pieces that were his mothers...that will now end up in a pawn shop. Its about doing the right thing. When I met my wife she had a very poor relationship with her father due to his lack of fathering (i.e. never paid a dime in child support with the promise to pay for college...guess what, I'm paying for her college now at age 41 because he didn't). I encouraged her to build back a relationship with her father over the years thinking that he had changed and turned his life around. In the end he was the same old a##hole....leaving a lot of hurt feelings.
I don't need to read any further to see that you are a bit of a drama queen.