Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Texas

Can an estate be sued for emotional damage and distress?

The last surviving parent in my highly dysfunctional

family recently passed away. Due to their devastating

dysfunctionality, my parents disowned two of their four

children. My younger brother has been left with a

dissociative disorder due to their emotional abuse, and I

have suffered immense emotional distress as well. The

estate has fallen into the hands of the two children who

are just like them. Is there any recourse to recover any

of the estate based on the trail of destuction left

behind? I realize that under normal circumstances, an

estate belongs to the person leaving it, and he has every

right to determine the recipients, but given that my

parents were emotionally abusive and essentially mentally

ill, is there any way to fight for some monetary recovery,

especially given the fact that irreversible damage was

inflicted on their children by them? Thanks in advance

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