# Daughter wins £127,500 from mother’s estate for years of dementia care

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/my-siblings-made-me-feel-like-a-criminal-after-i-cared-for-our-dying-mother-24-hours-a-day-says-daughter-who-has-now-won-127500-from-her-estate-after-bitter-family-court-battle/
- Published: 2026-10-29T00:50:20+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-29T01:07:15+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16245067/siblings-criminal-cared-dying-mum-daughter-won-127k.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Bern Rogers won £127,500 for caring for her mother.
- The family dispute lasted six-and-a-half years.
- Her siblings disputed whether a payment agreement existed.

## Summary

Bern Rogers, 71, has been awarded £127,500 from her late mother’s estate for the care she provided, after a six-and-a-half-year dispute with her five siblings. Rogers says she cared for her mother, who had dementia, around the clock for two-and-a-half years and that her mother had agreed she would be paid. The family conflict led to her being reported to police and charged, leaving her feeling treated like a criminal.

Her mother, Sheila Wills, moved from Norfolk to Rogers’s Bristol home in 2017, and was diagnosed with dementia the following year. Rogers and her husband said Wills eventually needed continuous help with personal care and eating, and that they could not leave her alone; Rogers slept beside her during her final weeks in the first Covid lockdown. She initially took £100,000 after Wills died in April 2020, but the money was seized amid the legal dispute. Her brother, the estate’s executor, said he and his siblings had not known of any separate agreement with Rogers.

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