Jane_Doe - 5:36 am on Jan 31, 2008 (gmt 0)

To me it would depend on how much the bill was and how good a friend the brother is, and if he is someone I wanted to stay friends with for the long term. I hired the mom of a family friend to do some work and she turned out to have some on and off signs of Alzheimer's (or something along those lines).

Even though the work she did really wasn't useable I let her fulfill the contract and paid her the full amount anyway. I felt the family friendships were worth much more to me at the time than the money.