When Melissa Engel\u2019s husband, Jeff, died suddenly at forty-seven, she never imagined that his brothers would hand her a $500,000 buyout check at his funeral. They explained that the farm partnership required it and that she would need to leave their home before planting season. Exhausted by grief, Melissa accepted the money without arguing.<\/p>\n
For twenty years, Melissa had managed the books for Engel Brothers, a Nebraska farming partnership that owned 1,100 acres. She understood the agreement and knew the buyout was fair. What hurt was the timing. Her twelve-year-old daughter, Abby, had already lost her father, and now they were being forced to leave the only home she had ever known.CONTINUE READING PART 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Melissa Engel\u2019s husband, Jeff, died suddenly at forty-seven, she never imagined that his brothers would hand her a $500,000 buyout check at his funeral. They explained that the farm partnership required it and that she would need to leave their home before planting season. Exhausted by grief, Melissa accepted the money without arguing. For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40888,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40884\/revisions\/40888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}