Well, when my grandfather passed away in 2011, his estate was split 4 ways between my 3 aunts and my mother and they reportedly needed to receive it in multiple different checks lest they want to pay taxes on it. My father, divorced from my mother, just passed in November and we're just getting around to settling his affairs. It's hard with the way of the world right now and us 3 living in wildly different locals and time zones and just want to do it right and get back to our lives. We're cordial and polite, we just don't have that sibling bond that most people do.