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So basically exactly the same. Even if he had a trust fund, he’d still e-beg. Instead of emphasizing mortgage payments, he’d play up Barb’s medical expenses or something. Trust funds aren’t unlimited money pools— it’d basically be another tugboat for him that’d relieve some of the financial pressure. Barb would definitely blow it on new kitchen appliances that she’d never use and a new car every six months until whatever hypothetical settlement they were awarded runs dry. This happens quite a bit with poorer/uneducated folk who come into a large sum of money: they pretty much burn through all of in a year living a conspicuously luxurious lifestyle until they can no longer sustain it, then back to the trailer park they go.
You're right. Unfortunately, Chris was more educated (to a degree), but still couldn't be bothered to handle money like an adult. Bob was the only one out of the 3 that was able to keep the finances together. Imagine if Barb died instead of Bob.