As parents age, siblings may face tough decisions about who will take care of them if they become infirm or frail. And then there's the matter of how the estate will be divided up when parents die. To say that disagreements crop up is perhaps an understatement. This potential for family friction has given birth to various customs. In the past, the eldest son often got it all.That's called primogeniture although it's no longer the way things typically play out today.
"Most, if not all, have been in the district since kindergarten," Timothy Lamb, the school's assistant principal, told Today. "Some teachers don't even know they're twins, even though some do look alike."
Joint home ownership was an obvious next step for us. We've endured every argument we could have had, overcome many different situations, and weathered family secrets and friend fallouts by each other's side.