Charles speaks out

I completely agree with my brother Roy and would add the following.

Why is Senator Reyes so determined to prevent me, the oldest son and the named executor in my father’s will, from addressing my father’s estate? Could it be because he is afraid I might hold him personally accountable for the proper administration of my late grandparents’ estates?

Pete Reyes is the executor for the estate of Dr. Juan Ch. Reyes, our paternal grandfather, and the administrator for the estate of the late Joaquina P. Reyes, our paternal grandmother. They both left sizable estates and my late father was extremely dissatisfied with Pete Reyes’s administration of those estates. My father died without receiving distributions from his parents’ estates. And now it falls upon me, the oldest son and the named executor, to claim my father’s share from Pete Reyes for the benefit of all of my father’s designated heirs.

I will not close my father’s estate until Senator Reyes has made a full and proper accounting and distribution of my grandparents’ estates to the estate of my father. Is this what Senator Reyes is really afraid of? Is he using the rights and interests of other children as an excuse to protect himself from potential legal liability from his poor management of my grandparents’ estates?

My father’s will is quite clear in naming beneficiaries. However, if Senator Reyes is not satisfied that all of the possible illegitimate children are adequately provided for in the will, will Senator Reyes contest my father’s will and impose his own preferences on how my father’s assets should be distributed in spite of my father’s stated wishes?

Senator Reyes says he is only out to protect the interests of my Dad’s girlfriend, Maria Paz G. Candado, and the interests my father’s other children, my siblings. But is this really the result he is bringing about by meddling into my father’s estate? It seems that he is only undermining their interest and, indeed, all of our interests by laying waste to the estate in terms of costly attorney fees.

Senator Reyes is creating unnecessary conflict in the family and setting up adversarial relationships instead of promoting harmony, understanding, and negotiated settlements. Senator Reyes is causing irreparable harm to my father’s estate and to my Dad’s family. My Dad would never approve of his brother’s hostile actions—particularly the foul manner in which his trusted and beloved sons are being treated by his own brother.