My husband and his brother each have ownership of a house (1/2 each) that is in another state. Their elderly mother (my MIL) lives in it but is not listed as the owner as she gave her ownership up. The monthly payment towards the mortgage on this house is roughly $600/month. My husband and his brother agreed to split that so that they each are supposed to pay $300/month. This agreement was put in place when my husband decided to put the entire loan for the mortgage under his name for a lower interest rate. My husband's brother is supposed to pay his share ($300) to my husband every month......well, low and behold he paid here and there for about a year, but stopped paying and has paid nothing for the past 2 years. So, my husband is stuck paying the full amount $600 every month. My husband has brought it up a few times to his brother, but the brother does the typical blow-off of I'll pay in a few months, when finances clear up, etc. The brother still manages to buy new cars and take trips, but never seems to have the money for his share of the mortgage payment. And my husband won't stand up to him and make him pay, not even to work out some sort of smaller amount per month. But I'm sure that if something happened to the elderly mother and the value of the house was paid out after sale, the brother would be first in line to collect his check for his share of the value of the house which is 1/2. And so it continues month after month, my husband pays the mortgage bill and the brother just ignores it and pays nothing. What should I do? Just stay out of it and let my husband be treated like a chump since he won't demand any respect for himself and this is not my family? Or should I make bigger waves by calling out the brother and reading him the riot act for being a classless deadbeat user? They only see my husband as an ATM, but my husband refuses to understand this. His family are all bums!!