Can I Stay Out of an Estate Dispute? (Essay Sample)

Article Title: Can I Stay Out of an Estate Dispute?
Article Date: February 26th 2015
This article is more discursive than exploratory. It demonstrates ethical issues concerning family inheritance tussles. A reader asks for advice from the ‘Ethicists’ who discuss the issue to come up with the most reasonable ethical solution. The case the reader asks about is specifically about a man whose brother invested six hundred thousand dollars on their father’s apartment. However, one thing leads to another and the father, after arguing with the investor son about money, leaves the estate to the ‘questioner’s’ two sons. The article’s authors try to classify the problem before solving it ethically. It is classified as explicitly ethical because of the presence of a will. Further, it is mentioned that a loan is not the same as an investment: because loans are meant to be paid back but investments pay people.
The ethical issue is conspicuously about the father’s right to giving out an estate his son had invested in and also the brother’s right to demand anything after the dispute he had had with his father. Most people would call this a case of an eye for an eye. The brother could be said to have gotten his dues for not helping their father. On the other hand, th...