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Dear Eric: My brother and I were estranged for many years at his insistence. We were able to reconcile after our father’s death when I gave him a larger portion of the estate than my father had willed ...

DEAR ERIC: My brother has children with whom I was extremely close when he and his wife got divorced in 1989. He never supported his kids, never paid child support and drank away everyone’s money, ...

Q. I have two brothers, and my role in our family has always been peacekeeper. Brother 1 bullied Brother 2 when we were growing up, but we were all close by the time we were in our 20s. Older now, ...