Houston Estate Planning and Elder Law Attorney Blog
It’s not exactly what most parents would want their children to use their inheritance for, but we suspect that this mother would have been very proud of her son.
John Bickman Walls told his son Pelle Walls, who was then 17, that his mother, Walls’ ex-wife, had committed suicide. Walls said that his ex-wife, Uta von Schwedler, a well-respected scientist, was found drowned in a bathtub.
Pelle was devastated, and before too long he began to suspect that his father had a hand in his mother's death. His father began acting strangely and saying things like "What if I did do it?" This behavior continued. When he reached the age of 18, Pelle moved out on his own. He eventually managed to get his siblings out of his father's control, due to the latter's erratic behavior.