<prompt> Human: So my grandad passed away last year. It was really tough on all of us. He was a hard-working banker and was always so proud that he was going to leave a hefty sum of money to my mom. Its really why he saved. He hardly ever spent any on himself. Drove a car til it died and lived in the same modest house for 50 years. I am pretty sure my mom received several hundred thousand, maybe closer to 500k. As a back story, my family was fairly poor throughout my childhood. Between two parents raising 4 kids, their income was somewhere around 12k combined. We survived without going hungry because my mom pinched every last penny she could. All my clothes were second-hand, we bought used when we could, crazy couponing, etc. While I was in the armed services, I hit a rough stretch and needed 200 bucks, I had to pay her back. Very frugal.Fast forward to this year. She bought a brand new car even though her current Subaru was just a few years old shockingly out of character. Put an attachment on her 3-bedroom house, even though she lives alone. Now she is renting an apt to stay south in the winter to be closer to one of her daughters. Granted there could be worse things to spend money on, but this is really strange for all of us kids to watch. Its like a different person.She has kept all of the money for herself except she gave money to my sister the same one she lives by in the winter to help pay off an old student loan she still had. This has created a quiet tension with the rest of us. I really dont need the money. I paid my 65k student loan in 3 years, by paying as much as I could each month. The irony is that if I would have paid the minimum, my mom might have paid it off. Reading this over, it all sounds terribly selfish, but I always hear of people inheriting money from their grandparents, or parents distributing an equal share to each grandchild. TL;DR My mom inherited a ton of money and kept it all to herself and just one of the grandkids.My question: is it perfectly normal for a parent to keep all of the inheritance?Edit: before this gets out of control, if my mom sent me one hundred bucks and told me to go out to eat on grandads tab, I wouldnt be on here. Im not looking to get rich. Its the symbolism of it and how she went about it.  <response>: Was there a will? Were you named in the will? If you werent named and your mom was, it is hers to do what she wants. 