Is she right to charge him??

*i didn’t know which group this would fit in, sorry if it’s totally off context”

Ok so my boyfriend’s biological sister passed away about a month ago in a car accident.

Him and her were adopted when they were small kids. About a year before she passed away, their biological grandma passed away due to natural reasons. The grandma left $6,000 to my bf and $6,000 to his sister. His sister’s dog got sick and needed surgery so she spent her money on the dog.

That was just some background I felt that needed to be put in here. So when my bf’s sister passed away, my bf paid for almost all of it. He told me he put in about 80% of money for the funeral and all. Her death caused a toll on the whole family.

Now, 1 1/2 month after she passed away, my bf gets notified that she left him all her life insurance. He’d be getting $50,000. He told me he would have to pay her school debt (which is about $30-40k) and some other stuff. Reasonable and there’s nothing he can do about that.

So then he told me that his mom (the one that adopted him and his sister) is asking for at least $5,000 for paying some of the funeral stuff. Is this right?? ... It’s like she wasn’t supposed to pitch in to pay for her daughter’s funeral and burial. My bf is bothered not by the fact that she’s asking for money but that she said “I need at least $5,000 for what I paid for her” As if it wasn’t her place to do so.

I won’t be asking him for any money or tell him what to do with it because he’s a grown man. But it tears me up that she would say that to him when he paid for most of it. And he really took her death hard. She was his only biological family left.