Months after the bulk of their mother’s estate was divided and paid, a reader’s sister is seeking to keep a remaining balance of $150,000 as payment for her work as an executor.

A reader is left wondering how to patch things up with irked neighbors after an understandably preoccupied friend left the reader’s dog alone to bark all night.

After her son responded with interest to the idea of moving back home to raise a family, a mother is hurt to realize that he never intended to keep her around.