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A 40-something unmarried woman was told by her 69-year-old father that he was marrying a 29-year-old woman — and her account, posted to Yahoo! News’ life-advice column, has become a hot topic on 5channel. The new wife is younger than his daughter, and alongside the shock of “a little brother might be born when I’m 44,” she voiced her anxiety over how the inheritance will be divided and who will handle her father’s future care. The thread saw a stream of practical takes on inheritance shares, forced-heirship calculations, and the risks of having children late in life — but plenty of commenters also questioned the article’s credibility, calling it “smells like fiction” and pointing out that the site is “a regular offender for clickbait pieces.”
“A Little Brother Bursting Into Existence at 44…?” Speechless at the Age of the New Wife Her 69-Year-Old Father Brought Home. The “Shocking Response” from Her Father After the Unmarried 40-Something Daughter Pleaded “Come to Your Senses!” [Expert Advice]
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Apparently, her now-69-year-old father suddenly told Sumire, “There’s someone I want you to meet.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Right, though on the flip side there's the money problem (the inheritance split)
There's a real chance the father gets sick and needs care while the little brother's still a minor, though…
Maybe he's loaded enough to just dump the caregiving on a facility instead of doing it himself
She could claim a third of the estate, right?
Probably fiction though
Old man cheats, a birth (shussan) follows, he loses his cut of the estate, and now the settlement (kessan) is a mess.
Wife (kassan) blows her top, dad's fist (tossan) comes flying, and he's so broke he can't even afford a Nissan.
What a disaster (hissan) — (this is a chain of puns riffing on the "-san" sound across 出産/決算/嚊さん/日産/悲惨, basically untranslatable wordplay)
The one asking for advice is the daughter, lol
Meaning the new wife walks off with half the inheritance
All the daughter can do is vent (hassan — the pun chain from above continues, playing on 発散)
These guys have been running this racket since before AI even existed — churning out clickbait "kotatsu articles" (pieces written from home with zero real reporting) for pageviews.
Financial Field
Bengo4.com
Bengoshi JP
FORZA STYLE
Diamond Online
THE GOLD ONLINE
Business Online
Norimono News / Kuruma no News
J-CAST (mocked as "J-trash")
Pinsuba News
Yorozu News (Kobe Shimbun)
Maidona News (Kobe Shimbun)
Daily Sports (Kobe Shimbun)
These are the usual garbage outlets for clickbait armchair pieces — worth remembering
Just found out Hiroshi Tachi is 76
What a monster (in the best way)
No matter how old you are, that's gotta feel awful from the kid's side, lol
Assuming this isn't fiction
Parents have their own lives to live, and the money is primarily theirs to begin with. I'm not planning my life around an inheritance anyway
Assuming she can actually stand on her own two feet
No way she's doing that. She'll take the money and vanish
Need ¥10 million if she's 4 years younger, ¥20 million if she's 8 years younger… The misguided 40-year-old man who can't land a single match even after applying to 100 women a month
https://president.jp/articles/-/118877?page=1
Normally even with billions in the bank, women in their 20s are out of reach
Maybe if you're a celebrity
If this case isn't an "usomatsu" (an obviously made-up sob story), then the guy's incredibly blessed (the original phrasing here is garbled/nonstandard Japanese)
People might feel differently
Son's fantasy: "Mom! You can't do that! Dad's gonna come back!"
Half the estate goes to the wife
The other half split evenly among the kids
Yeah, exactly this
No matter what the will says, forced heirship means the wife walks off with half
Since they're already legally married, there's nothing left to do but accept it
Also, leave an elderly father living alone and cults or "widow hunters" (women who target and marry rich elderly men for their money) will come after him
You really need to move in with him
Apparently the odds of ADHD go up quite a bit
So you're saying if you want a genius kid, you should wait until you're old to have one?
The genetic effects actually come from the mother's age, not the father's
So what's even the problem here
Her share is gonna be hell
>My father only ever takes her side. On top of that, he's started making snide remarks about me being single, even at this point… A few days ago he hit me with the final, lowest blow (details omitted) Why should I — the one who handled my mother's nursing care and even looked after my father's daily needs — be the one blamed now as if I'm the one who destroyed this family?
Reading this part, yeah, this father is genuinely the worst
Ah, if she was the one handling his caregiving and daily needs, she can file for a contribution share (a legal provision letting caregivers claim extra from the estate) — I'm rooting for the daughter here
Especially with caregiving — without family help, you end up giving up your job, marriage, all kinds of things…
If this daughter's the only child, the family line dies out either way
The guy is 69
Can you not even read the thread title?
The other half gets split with the new baby brother
Rough deal
Say it's Tokyo, 50 tsubo (about 165 sqm) at ¥2 million per tsubo, that's ¥100 million
Wife inherits ¥50 million
The 40-something daughter and her new half-brother get about ¥25 million each
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Under Article 900 of Japan’s Civil Code, a surviving spouse’s statutory share of an estate is one-half, and forced heirship generally follows the same ratio — so in this case too, the new wife stands a good chance of receiving close to half the estate. That’s the legal backdrop behind the thread’s repeated focus on inheritance shares. The claim that “an elderly father’s sperm raises a child’s risk of developmental disorders” isn’t baseless folklore either — it echoes actual research on the accumulation of sperm mutations with age. That said, commenters singled out specific outlets like Financial Field and Bengo4.com as frequent culprits in writing up these “life advice” testimonials purely to farm pageviews, so it’s worth keeping in mind that the story’s authenticity remains very much in question.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5channel (Breaking News Plus) thread “69-Year-Old Man Marries 29-Year-Old Woman — Unmarried 40-Something Daughter Pleads “Come to Your Senses!”: “A Little Brother Bursting Into Existence at 44…?”“.
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