Everyone should doublecheck sensationalist claims given the well-known incentives to lie, exaggerate, etc. That said, cutting off contact with an under-age rel

Everyone should doublecheck sensationalist claims given the well-known incentives to lie, exaggerate, etc. That said, cutting off contact with an under-age relative over a couple hundred dollars does sound like pretty miserly behavior. A lesson in the tenuousness of familial ties in the face of stubborn ideology, if anything.