The Moneyist: ‘Am I crazy?’ After my mother died, my cousin took her designer purse, and my aunt took 8 paintings from her home — then things really escalated

Dear Quentin,My mother passed away three months ago after a long and horrible decline due to dementia. This devastated me and my immediate family. I also had to leave my job during this time. My mother passed away less than a month after being moved to a memory-care unit, and I am still in the depths of grief. Her sisters and their children came to the funeral. My extended family felt entitled to look through my mother’s paintings, her purses, her jewelry and everything else.  On