Do not enable by giving money that isn’t hers
Dear Doug: Indian Giver
Dear Doug:
My daughter gave me a lotto ticket for Mother's day, which turned out to be a $10,000 winner. I promptly gave my daughter $2,000 of the winnings, thinking that she'd be thrilled. Instead, after telling her husband, she called her father and told him she should be given 50% of the winnings, not 20%. My husband explained that the ticket was a gift to me and I was under no compunction to return even 20%, much less half of the winnings. Our daughter abruptly hung up on her dad and has not called back. It's been three weeks already and I'm concerned we will never get to see our grandchildren again. What should we do? ...
