Archive for April 30th, 2011
Probate question.Inlaws died 10 yrs ago and everything still in limbo?
unforgettable_1 asked:
My Father-in-law and Mother-in-law died in 2000 and 2001 respectively. My brother-in-law was an alcoholic in bad health and remained in the home alone after their deaths. He wanted my husband and I to move in with him to he to help with bills and look after him. There was no will but 9 children. the daughters went in the house and took all the jewelery, bank papers and everything else of value. Because they were robbing the home of all its appliances and what not, they didn’t want us to move into the home. One sister was the main instigator and threatened to burn the house down to the ground if we tried to move in with the brother. Months went by and my husband and I came by 2 to 3 times a week to check on his brother, clean house and bring him food. One day an older sister stopped by and found the alcoholic brother passed out outside and it looked like he had been there for a day or two. He was put in the hospital then moved to the nursing home. While he was in the nursing home, the witch sister went to the mailbox on the 1st of each month and took his check , forged his signature and spent the money for herself. When we saw what was going on we took the brother out of the nursing home for the day and took him around to collect copies of his old marriage license, Social Security letter, birth certificate and paid to get him a new copy of his I.D. Someone had took all his records so in order to get his check mailed to him in the nursing home we put out about $200 and inform the bank that his checks had his signature forged. Someone had also closed out his bank account. He knows his sister done all this and didn’t want to contact the police since we had helped him get it fixed for all future checks. Now the house sits unoccupied and has been destroyed. People have ripped out all the wiring, broken out the windows to get the aluminum frames and drug addicts use it as a flop house. One brother took all the power tools and the one ton truck and sold it all. One sister took a diamond ring that was worth about 5 to 6 grand. Another sister took furniture and the wedding set. One took the deed to land in Florida and sold it to another brother plus she had a trailer for which the father had co-signed and she defaulted on the loan. Everyone of them took and took until all that is left is the land and a huge mess on it. The brother in the nursing home and my husband took nothing. Neither one of them wanted to cause discourse in the family. The sisters had the one in the nursing home removed from having any chance of getting any of the assets, he had to sign away all rights to it to get the necessary financial help to stay in the nursing home. No one has taken this to a probate court and they refuse to sign to let my husband have the land without paying them each what the land is worth, they want him to pay 7 times its value because they are all so greedy and hateful. Can I take it to probate court to let a Judge decide what , if anything , my husband should pay for the land he holds so dear. He wants the memories and to keep the 2 acres in the family, not let it go to public auction and be lost to us all. Please , if anyone knows how we should go about trying to get the land legally,let me know. My husband is now very ill as well and he wants to be “Home” for his remaining time.
Geoffrey Moultry
My Father-in-law and Mother-in-law died in 2000 and 2001 respectively. My brother-in-law was an alcoholic in bad health and remained in the home alone after their deaths. He wanted my husband and I to move in with him to he to help with bills and look after him. There was no will but 9 children. the daughters went in the house and took all the jewelery, bank papers and everything else of value. Because they were robbing the home of all its appliances and what not, they didn’t want us to move into the home. One sister was the main instigator and threatened to burn the house down to the ground if we tried to move in with the brother. Months went by and my husband and I came by 2 to 3 times a week to check on his brother, clean house and bring him food. One day an older sister stopped by and found the alcoholic brother passed out outside and it looked like he had been there for a day or two. He was put in the hospital then moved to the nursing home. While he was in the nursing home, the witch sister went to the mailbox on the 1st of each month and took his check , forged his signature and spent the money for herself. When we saw what was going on we took the brother out of the nursing home for the day and took him around to collect copies of his old marriage license, Social Security letter, birth certificate and paid to get him a new copy of his I.D. Someone had took all his records so in order to get his check mailed to him in the nursing home we put out about $200 and inform the bank that his checks had his signature forged. Someone had also closed out his bank account. He knows his sister done all this and didn’t want to contact the police since we had helped him get it fixed for all future checks. Now the house sits unoccupied and has been destroyed. People have ripped out all the wiring, broken out the windows to get the aluminum frames and drug addicts use it as a flop house. One brother took all the power tools and the one ton truck and sold it all. One sister took a diamond ring that was worth about 5 to 6 grand. Another sister took furniture and the wedding set. One took the deed to land in Florida and sold it to another brother plus she had a trailer for which the father had co-signed and she defaulted on the loan. Everyone of them took and took until all that is left is the land and a huge mess on it. The brother in the nursing home and my husband took nothing. Neither one of them wanted to cause discourse in the family. The sisters had the one in the nursing home removed from having any chance of getting any of the assets, he had to sign away all rights to it to get the necessary financial help to stay in the nursing home. No one has taken this to a probate court and they refuse to sign to let my husband have the land without paying them each what the land is worth, they want him to pay 7 times its value because they are all so greedy and hateful. Can I take it to probate court to let a Judge decide what , if anything , my husband should pay for the land he holds so dear. He wants the memories and to keep the 2 acres in the family, not let it go to public auction and be lost to us all. Please , if anyone knows how we should go about trying to get the land legally,let me know. My husband is now very ill as well and he wants to be “Home” for his remaining time.
Geoffrey Moultry