He cheated on my friend and died

So this is actually something that happened to a close friend of mine and its not my story. I just wanted to get this off my chest as I cannot tell anyone. So I have an older friend (we will call her Nia, who has a husband, we will call him Jay. Me and my family have been close with them for a long time as Nia’s mother was best friends with my mother. So Nia married into a wealthy family and she and her husband are pretty well off. They have one child and have been married for 10 years.

Two years ago, they hired a new maid to take care of the house. She was probably 25 at the time so I will let you do the math. So what happened was that the maid and Jay started an affair very secretly. So they would book hotels on her leave days and do things when my friend was away. I would say they were careful because it went on for 6 months. Now this affair wasn’t just a sexual affair. It was a love affair and he was planning to leave the family to run away with her. Crazy, I know. But then about a year ago he died in a car crash which was very saddening for my friend. Now the thing is, Jay was a person who worried a lot and had made a will when their son was born. So naturally we thought the money would go to the family.

But when we checked, it had been changed to give a lot of the money to the maid. My friend did get the house and her son did get money but it was still a lot of money to give to the maid since none of his friends or business partners had not gotten any shares. That is how we found out about the affair. The maid never publicly admitted it but I think we all figured it out.

Nia was very angry, understandably. She immediately got a lawyer and decided to put a will contest. (A will contest is when you challenge the will basically) So she hired a good lawyer and put it up and made the claim that the will was made under undue influence and false pretenses. So she basically said that her husband did not know what she was doing and that the maid had made him do that change very drastically. Now it did look suspicious for the maid because he had changed the will just 2 months before he died. So she won and the maid lost as she did not have a good lawyer. I feel like it is unfair since Jay did make the change by himself but oh well. He given her a card to use to buy things for herself and she had to return it and pay for the things she bought in the card. I honestly felt so bad for her since it wasn’t her fault. I do support my friend though.