You might assume that your will or estate plan ensures that your money will go to your intended heirs. But inheritance theft is an insidious and underreported problem that can cost families dearly. And since inheritance thieves are usually family members, the fallout often is not only about money, but also family ties.
Here is what you need to know about the problem of inheritance theft, and how you can protect yourself and your heirs from inheritance thieves.
What Is Inheritance Theft?
Inheritance theft can take many forms, ranging from manipulating the person’s wishes while they’re still alive, to theft and embezzlement that occurs after the death.
For blended families, this issue is a common problem, even if the estate in question isn’t worth millions. According to John K. Ross IV, an estate planning and elder law attorney based in Texas, “90% of all contested probate cases are between a surviving spouse and the deceased spouse’s children.”
Of course, this is not the only way that someone other than the intended heir can get hold of an inheritance. “It goes from very small to very big,” Ross says. “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard that Dad’s watch or Mom’s engagement ring has simply gone ‘missing’ after the funeral.”
But Ross has seen much greater inheritance theft occur. It happens when someone with access to the funds gets sticky fingers: “Inheritance thieves will often rationalize what they are doing by claiming they need a little bit of money out of the funds because of how much they are doing for the estate. But a little money inevitably becomes a lot of money because they don’t realize how deep they are until they have taken hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
While this is, of course, illegal, this kind of inheritance theft often goes unreported and unchallenged because the heir has to use their own funds to pay the legal fees to prove malfeasance.
Forms of Inheritance Hijacking
Even without direct access to funds, unscrupulous family members can use other methods to get a piece of an estate. The following tactics are common when a relative is vulnerable to manipulation:
Undocumented Loans
Family members who borrowed money from a relative might insist that such loans were gifts after the relative’s death. If there is no loan document in place, the heirs have no recourse to get the money back from the borrower on behalf of the estate. The only way to protect an estate from this kind of hijacking is to insist on loan documents whenever a large amount of money changes hands.
Denigration of Fellow Heirs
Rather than focus on the bonds between each other, heirs are sometimes more focused on what they can do to increase their piece of the estate pie. An heir might lie about the other heirs, claiming that one sibling can’t be trusted with money, while another has more than he needs. This kind of denigration can persuade an elderly parent to change their will in favor of the lying heir. Unfortunately, it is difficult for an heir who is being denigrated to protect themselves from this kind of insidious hijacking—in part because the denigrated heir rarely knows it has happened until after it is too late.
Forging or Destroying Documents
In some cases, a family member or advisor might prepare a fake will or a fake amendment to a real will, giving the forger a bigger slice of the inheritance pie. For instance, imagine a parent who leaves most of his estate to a disabled child who cannot take care of herself. If the older sibling of the disabled child were to destroy the will, then the parent would be considered to have died intestate, and the money would be distributed equally between the siblings.
How to Protect Your Heirs
The best method of protecting your wishes is through a well-written estate plan. Such a plan includes a detailed will, a power of attorney, and trusts for your assets. For each of these documents, you will need to consult a well-vetted estate attorney (see below for tips on finding an estate attorney) to make sure your wishes are legally binding.
Here are the particular concerns you will need to consider for each of these documents.
Your Will
This is the center of your estate plan, and you can make your will as detailed as you like, so that the distribution of your property can follow your exact wishes. You can also change your will anytime you like, and it’s prudent to review it every few years to make sure that everything is still up to date.
One of the important choices you will have to make when drawing up your will is who will act as your executor. This is the person who will handle the logistical details of your estate after your death. Since this person will be managing your assets until they are distributed to your heirs, you must choose someone whom you trust to follow your wishes. An untrustworthy executor is in a position where they could embezzle funds after your death.
Most people name their spouse, a close friend, or family member as their executor. However, it’s possible to hire an executor who will be paid from your estate, and, in fact, lawyers will often perform executor services. If you have an already-contentious family situation, hiring an executor can ensure an unbiased third party is handling your estate after your death.
Financial Power of Attorney
If you were to become mentally or physically incapacitated, you would need someone to act as your power of attorney to make financial decisions on your behalf. As with choosing an executor, you need to trust that this individual will follow your wishes, since a power of attorney has control over your assets.
Without a power of attorney in place, the courts will step in to appoint what’s known as a conservator should you become incapacitated. This process is lengthy and expensive, and you have no choice in whom the court appoints as your conservator, which is why choosing your power of attorney is so important.
Trusts
In the simplest terms, a trust is a financial agreement among three parties: the grantor, who creates and funds the trust; the beneficiary, who receives the assets from the trust; and the trustee, who has a fiduciary duty to responsibly manage the assets in the trust.
Creating a trust for your assets can be an excellent way to make sure that money is available for beneficiaries unable to handle money on their own—such as minor children. In addition, certain types of trusts can provide a surviving spouse with income during their lifetime, while leaving the assets themselves to additional beneficiaries, such as adult children, after the death of the surviving spouse.
It is vital that you choose a trustee who you know will respect their fiduciary duty, since the trustee has control over the assets in your trust. Requiring two co-trustees and asking for dual signatures on all financial paperwork can help ensure that no one abuses their power as a trustee.
Actions to Protect Your Heirs
In addition to the well-written estate plan and the careful choice of anyone who will be in control of your assets, there are several other actions you can take to protect your heirs from inheritance theft:
1. Appoint two executors to your estate. Make one of your two executors a non-family professional, such as a trust company, a financial planner, or an attorney. This lowers the likelihood that your executor will take advantage of their position.
2. Discuss your estate plan with the entire family. Telling the whole clan—ideally at the same time—what your plans are will make it more difficult for any one family member to try to circumvent your wishes later. Talking about money with family can be sticky, but it can prevent a great deal of resentment and mismatched expectations.
3. Put a disclosure requirement in your will. If your will requires your executor to disclose all details about estate expenses, assets, and financial transfers, it will be more difficult for an untrustworthy executor to hide misappropriation or theft.
How to Protect Yourself From Inheritance Theft
What if you are an heir who fears your inheritance has been stolen or is in danger of being hijacked by someone else? This is a very difficult situation, since it can be both expensive to fight an inheritance thief in the courts and difficult to prove that your inheritance has been hijacked.
According to Valerie Rind, author of the book Gold Diggers and Deadbeat Dads, the first thing you need to do is “consult a lawyer who specializes in trusts and estate work. The attorney who handled your brother’s DUI probably isn’t the best choice.” That’s because an estate attorney will know the specifics to look for in proving your case, and will have plenty of experience in dealing with inheritance shenanigans.
It’s also important to know your rights, says Rind. While the laws vary from state to state, there are certain rights that you can count on as an heir or beneficiary. In particular, as an heir, you have the right to receive information about the will and the estate, if you request it from the executor. If the executor is trying to keep you in the dark, that is a major red flag.
In addition, you also have the right to an accounting of the estate or the trust. The accounting is a detailed report of income, expenses, and distributions from the estate or trust, explains Rind. The accounting should be in writing, and should provide supporting papers such as receipts or cancelled checks. These supporting papers should match the information on the accounting that the executor or trustee provides.
Be Prepared to Spend Money on Legal Fees
The good news is that most estate attorneys will not charge you a fee for your initial consultation. During this meeting, your prospective attorney will ask you questions about your family, financial situation, and goals. The attorney also will let you know how much you can expect to pay for your specific estate plan.
In general, attorneys ask for a flat fee to prepare your estate plan, rather than charging you on an hourly basis. The average flat fee for a relatively simple estate plan is about $1,000-$1,200, although costs can range much higher for larger and more complex estates.
If you are an heir fighting inheritance theft, you will likely have to pay your attorney on an hourly basis, since you will be engaged in an ongoing legal dispute. U.S. law firms’ hourly rates averaged $245 per hour in 2018. The average heir may experience sticker shock when hearing how much they may have to pay to fight for their inheritance.
Legal Fees for a Trust
When a trust is involved, Rind also cautions beleaguered heirs that trusts can cause increased financial headaches, because “the trust itself is a separate ‘person’ and might need its own attorney. The legal fees get paid out of the trust’s assets, so you could wind up spending the money you are fighting over.”
This is why it’s important to determine ahead of time if the fight over your loved one’s money or property will be worth the time, energy, and legal fees you will have to put into it. Legal fees have decimated plenty of estates when heirs fight long court battles over what belongs to whom.
Tips on Finding an Estate Attorney
Whether you are planning your own estate or you are fighting for your inheritance, you may feel overwhelmed when trying to find the right estate attorney for your needs. But according to Ross, you can start this search the way you start any search for a service provider: online.
“Go to your prospective attorney’s website and see what they claim to specialize in,” Ross says. “If the site says ‘estate planning, elder law, and 18-wheeler accidents,’ that’s not the right attorney for you.” Ross recommends finding an attorney who specializes in estate planning.
Questions to Ask Your New Attorney
Once you have requested an initial meeting, there are a few more questions to ask. Specifically, Ross recommends you ask the following before hiring your new lawyer:
Does my specific estate need make up the majority of your practice?
Even within estate law, there is still more specialization, from marital trusts to charitable giving to special needs trusts. The more experience your lawyer has with your specific needs, the better they will be able to help you.
Can you tell me how this could go wrong?
Ross states that many drafting attorneys don’t necessarily think about wills in terms of how families act in reality. If you are writing a will, you want an attorney who is willing to remove the rose-colored glasses. Your attorney should look at ways your heirs or family members could exploit vague language or legal loopholes. If you are fighting inheritance theft, you want your attorney to be up front with you about your likelihood of success.
Do you offer formal updating and maintenance services?
It’s easy to look at estate planning as a one-and-done process, and many attorneys view it that way, as well. But attorneys are starting to offer annual or semiannual check-ins regarding your estate planning, for a nominal fee. With this service, your lawyer will let you know of any changes in the law or estate planning practices. They will ask you if there have been any major changes in your life that affect your estate plan. Finding an attorney who offers this kind of service can protect you from keeping an out-of-date will in place past its usefulness.
Rest in Peace of Mind
Fighting against an inheritance thief is both exhausting and expensive. It will not necessarily bring back the money that was taken. This is why the best defense against inheritance theft is a good offense:
- Prepare a well-written estate plan.
- Appoint multiple individuals as executors, trustees, and powers of attorney as a safeguard against untrustworthy behavior.
- Be open with your entire family about your wishes.
If you do all of these things, you can feel much more secure in the knowledge that your wishes will be carried out after you are gone.
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My daughter was killed in a car crash 2 yrs ago. She had an estate opened but didn’t name an executor. Nobody even knew she had one. I don’t speak to anyone in my family and haven’t (with the exception of my son who is 26…. My daughter was 22 when she passed) For about 16 yrs. Now everyone wants me back in their lives because they want me to sign some paperwork and sign over her entire estate over to my sister. Everything is currently in Probate Court. I’m not familiar with this at all and have no clue what my rights are. Can you please give an idea of what l should do. I just can’t believe how money can cause people to act . My family didn’t even call me when she died…. I found out on. Ty in advance if you can point me right direction.
My husband passed and immediately afterward his children took advantage, they manipulated me in believing they were there to comfort me on the loss of their father. I truly believed they were there for me. But, they were not. They have been my family for 28 years. When I got a slap in the face of how I was being used, I knew this was all untrue. They came into my home and stole the Will. One of his sons that his Dad trusted, had a copy. He (his son) and I were very close. Had a copy of the Will and claims he cannot find it. I remember now how his (my husband) 3 daughters manipulated me as they went to the office in our home and stole the original. All this is so heartbreaking, a family that was mine also has dropped me like a a switch.
My question is can I go after them for taking advantage of me stealing a Will from my home without proof in the state of Oregon.
My husband worked in the DA’s office so he did all the paperwork on this himself.
My Aunt and Uncle kept my mother’s share of my grandparents estate because she had died before my grandmother. They used my grandmother’s Dimentia as a way to change her will. They even stole a house that was promised to my son. They kept everything then moved to a different state . My brother and I got absolutely nothing!
I lived with my fiance for 11 years and we took care of each other. he passed away suddenly. I’m a senior. How much time do I have to find a home to move to?
My mom’s ex-boyfriend had a trust made and we’ve lived his him for the longest time since I was 5 years old and I’m going through the same problem and nobody’s telling us anything that kids are fighting in court over the property umi might need some really help to
This is a very informative article. Inheritance is one of the reasons why families argue with each other. If you feel that the will is not correct you must act and dispute the will with the help of a lawyer. 1st thing you need to do is seek legal advice and lawyer up to protect you. This very thing happened to me. I won the case and all is good up to now.
You got a lawyer for a hijacked trust? Who did you send request for information to reply to the petition for removal? Our trustee died in 1967 and bank took over . But no bank employee is responsible
Hi there, I enjoy reading through your post. I wanted to write a little comment to support you.
I live in Oklahoma City & my 2 nieces and cop husband came into my family and moved my 86 year old mother off her estate where me and my 2 little sisters did not have their address for 2 years until my mother passed away and then nieces husband calls me with the news of my mothers passing and then he provides me with his address.Only to find out they acquired the keys to my mothers house and found her estate plan which was already shown to me since im the oldest and nieces brought in a new attorney in the last 2 years of my mothers life which gave 2 nieces everything and disinherited us 3 adopted kids.Cannot find legal representation in Oklahoma City now going on 16 years .Im the only disabled person in our family on SSI.
Is there a time limit on someone looking into inheritance theft from a gold digging step mom who took every penny my dad owned even trust funds he had set up for his 3 children were empty when he died! He had many life insurance policies and said had some in each of our names that we never got. Though we were good she was broke she bought brand new 60 ,000 dollar cars for her kids sent everyone of her grandchildren to college in England , continued to travel world wide on cruises and live a lavish life in the million dollar home my dad had bought her in palm beach Florida! He told each one of us kids we would be well taken care of for life and ended up with nothing. They were only married 8 years and my mom and him married 50 some years! He started his own company here in Wisconsin and walked out of there with over 5 million dollars plus money he already had accrued! She let him die like a pauper and refused to let us kids take her to Dr for a second opinion when we saw what she was doing with him ! Even took her to court and hired an attorney and he was shocked when he found out the judge wouldn’t let us take him to an oncologist because she was eating he had lung cancer but had never taken him to an oncologist! My heart has never recovered from what this woman did to my dad and family and the guilt I carry within me is devestating that we couldn’t help our dad! She didn’t even come up here to his funeral and threatened the funeral director up here she would have him creamated asap if we had an autopsy on him and wouldn’t give funeral director up here permission! I would love to see this woman be questioned about her actions and be able to find peace for my dad.
My father passed away 16 months ago prior to his passing. He had contacted me to let me know that he had made sure I would be fine and that I would not have to worry about anything in the future part of the plans that he had made was that money he left to his sister The sister he had had no contact with for 10 years but as soon as she found out he had inherited money from his deceased wife decided she would show up and have him buy her a car and do this and do that he asked her to take 20,000 out of the account she received and hand it to me she promised him he would do that And up until recently I was told that she would in fact she had put money into an account at Wells Fargo and showed me that she had done that now she has decided since there was no paperwork and no proof and that she did not make that promise that she did not have to do it And was not going to, and I was just hit with information, not too long ago, which my aunt is well aware of that one of the accounts that my father was supposed to receive apparently was swindled out of his deceased wife prior to her death and my father was not informed of that either so I am sitting here with a disability that is going to kill me within the next four years with the money. My father intended for me to have been taken and controlled or stolen out right the one account that I was given suddenly now I’m not able to get it until back. Taxes are paid on that account as well as his military pension benefits in the SSDI , when I did my investigation to find out exactly how much taxes would have been taken out of those things I was told point-blank, but neither the SSDI or the military pension benefits would have been taxed if there were any fees or penalties to come out of his income it would have come out prior to him receiving that money and the account that is being withheld for six months past the date that it was signed over to me that money is still being controlled by the executor of the estate who has told me that she cannot hand it over until my fathers, outstanding tax, debt or paid. I’ve been told that was not true, but she is insisting that it is, and for some reason determined not to have that money over what are my options
Hi Karen, I’m sorry for your loss and what has happened to your father and yourself. We are going through a similar situation with inheritance theft from the Executor of our parents’ wills. The part about back taxes having to be paid before heirs can receive anything is true, not sure what if any exemptions there are with the IRS that could be made in your situation. From what I’ve read and researched is that all Federal taxes must be paid before anyone, or any other debtor is paid. This isn’t the answer you were hoping for but …. if the Executor spent any of the estate money on herself or any other debtors, or even retaining an attorney, and has not paid the back taxes, then she is personally responsible to pay those back taxes. FYI. I’m not an attorney but just wanted to leave you with another way of looking to get justice from a deceitful executor.
I have the same problem. How can beneficiaries connect to share information in one place?
Somebody out here to do the same thing like it sound like hey it’s only a move to Florida
hello i keep getting emails about an inheritance from the royal scottish bank but i fear they are scamming me ive saved all the emails and they want me to send a reactivation fee of 780.00 they also say im entitled to 3 estates as well i believe the lawyer isd trying to scam me it does sound like it may be the real deal,, can i send u the emails if this ends up being promising i could really use the upper hand they say its 5,600,000.000
Hi Lizabeth – A good place to start may be contacting a legal professional. Good luck!
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my father hadnt updated his will before he got sick and passed away. it happened very quickly and i wasnt expecting him to pass away we didnt think he was as sick as he was. he hasnt been with his ex-wife for many years nor has his other children even bothered to stay in contact with him or help him when he was very ill. none of them could care less. i am his daughter i moved in with him i cooked for him and cleaned the house as well as i was the one that took care of him when he couldnt take care of himself. his passing was extremely fast he was taken to the hospital by ambulance and went right into surgery and within hours he passed away because his infection was so bad it turned septic. he hasnt even been gone 12 hours and my half brother and his wife walked right into his house and started going thru his belongings as well as his mother my step mother also walked in like she owned it. they made arrangements for him to be cremated and for a funeral service without even including me. the one thats been there taking care of him over these last years when nobody else would! my step mother and i do not get along she dislikes me and shes pushing me out of the picture. shes went as far as changing the locks on me and not allowing me in his house that i have lived in with my father. my father actually payed his exwife off by buying her a brand new car right off the lot and it had to be exactly what she wanted. he also had to drive it all the way down east because she stole his brand new truck and took off out east to live. my father didnt know he was as sick as he was and hadnt gotten around to rewrite his will obviously because he wasnt expecting to die. my step mother and my half siblings her children with my father have taken over everything even though nobody cared about him while he was alive. what can i do to stop these money hungry looters from taking my fathers house, vehicle, harley davison motorcycle all of his belongings as well as his savings. i am the only one that was there for him and these strangers think that they deserve everything. how can i stop this?
Hi Amber, first, I’m not a lawyer. I’m only relating to you through similar experience and to hopefully save you the grief and sleepiness nights that come with this. Take a deep breath first, then, look up in your state courts the probate division. Look at the forms available for “application for executor/personal Rep. ” – as a daughter you can apply. If the step-mother was separated from your father and living in another state, you would have jurisdiction over your father’s estate. Fill out all the forms for “personal Rep” , You must do this immediately. You are asking for informal probate – Letters from the County Clerk that authorize you to administer the estate. Do everything it says to do. You need to publish in a local paper a notice to creditors and anyone who has a claim against the estate. This gives them 4 months to make a claim. You then start gathering assets of estate. This would be all things in your father’s personal name. If his real property were in a living trust that would not pass through probate. When you get your letters of personal Rep. If these people continue to try and take things you can have them arrested. Follow the Courts rules for Probate.
I need to find representation to contest my mother’s estate. Her and her mother was from Reims, France and married an American soldier after WW2. The farm where they both resided was in part my mother’s after the death of her parents. I had been told at an early age that if I left the principal alone that I could live off of the interest. She had told me many times and on her deathbed that my brother and I would split the marital assets and that I would receive her personal account. My dad quickly remarried after her death and then his new wife sent me an E-mail telling me that he had passed 2 days previous. I was never invited to a funeral and have heard nothing from her since. I suspect this to be fraudulent and intended to deceive me of this money.
In addition, there are other legal matters at hand that need to be investigated. I am seeking investigators from another state because my father was a high ranking military member with ties to law enforcement and other divisions (that I suspect he has used in the past to create events that could use later to imply guilt in crimes that have not yet been brought before me and could have already sent an ex-boyfriend to prison for 14 years on a charge I don’t think we committed but was finished for this purpose.) that can control information and outcomes of these inquiries in most counties as well as other states. I know this sound hard to believe but once you spend a few minutes looking into the people involved and the situation at hand you will see that this is on solid ground.
I suspected there could be foul play in 2015 and made mention to an attorney then and once again sought representation in 2020 to no avail (no return calls, rejection).
I also believe he has contacted every possible agency that could help me with a fabricated or elaborate story as to why I should not be believed or helped.
Any information you have that could lead me to people that can help me would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
My dad and stepmom took my brother and I away from my mom when I was 10 yrs old. We were made to call her mom..She couldn’t have kids…I asked her why my mom wasn’t picking us up cause it was the weekend and she told me that my real mom didn’t want me..She used me as her slave. I cooked cleaned did laundry worked and my homework and left home after I turned 18. My dad divorced her short of a yr thereafter. My real mom died in a highspeed chase and my stepmother appeared at the hospital then came to the funeral for my brother..She allienated herself from me and my son..My brother is her only beneficiary. I confronted her about that and she says because of the way my brother was treated from my dad..Of all the crap she put me through I am not worthy of being a beneficiary…She is the definition of an evil step mom literally..
When my mother died she left the house with me but my dad took over everything the problem is they where no longer together both of them are married
When I was only 13 yrs. old my moms brother talked her into cutting off her diamond ring while she was going into the hospital and then he held it in his safe and kept it. I was cheated out of my ring as my father bought it for me, is oldest daughter. Can I sue them, it’s value is at 2million dollars ?
My mother passed in 2021 and after not giving up finally after 21 years of her passing they return last payment to me. After a request they gave all copies. I then realized they cash too many life insurance policies, do I have a legal point to sue. I need help.
My uncle died as a widower in NJ with no children 10/2022. He lived with his girlfriend after his wife died for several years. In July 2022, he mentioned to my mother that she is a beneficiary and not to worry about it with the girlfriend of course next to him. After several attempts to see my Uncle Will, we had to get a lawyer cause the girlfriend said that she is the only inheritor of his estate (has approximately 3-4 properties under his name and auntie who passed away). The supposed Will does say but we don’t believe that it is valid since it took her a while to reveal it. She was out of the country to Philippines for at least 1 month to which we have high suspicion that she could easily forged it. My uncle was an alcoholic and could have easily been manipulated by the girlfriend. She was a known gold digger in their neighborhood who most likely have been doing her homework/researching for years. My issue is that my mother died this April and she didn’t leave a Will. I was her Durable Power of Attorney when she was alive and have lived with her all my life. My uncle has a life insurance policy that my mother can claim but I was told to do paperwork for Affidavit to claim the benefit for my mother. How to do I go by doing this? Do I need to go to Probate Court to be appointed as a representative for my mother to continue contesting my Uncle’s Will?
Recently left a message on here about how my niece & her husband moved my 86 year old mother off her homestead acreage of 2-1/2 acres of 62 years and moved my mother out to nieces house address which is unknown to me and my 2 little sisters for the last 2 years of our mothers life. In 2008 when my mother passed away nieces husband calls me with the news of my mothers passing and then he provides me with his address. Only to find out in 2006 the year they moved my 86 year old mother off her estate they brought in a new attorney and had my mom sign a revocable trust giving my 2 nieces 50% of everything they owned, built, saved, invested house, acreage 50% percent of oil, gas and other mineral rights. I’m the oldest disabled son and they dis-inherited me and give my 2 little sisters a $150.00 each. Plus they would not let me see my mother when I called them in 2007 and I forget what excuse my nieces husband give me but he did not give me his address not until the following year when my mom passed away and he is a retired Oklahoma City police captain married to my niece. Neither of them were around when in 1990 my dad had 3 massive heart attacks and had Alzheimer’s disease when my mom moved him out of the nursing home where just me and my mom took care of him at our house till he passed away. Nieces and husband were no where around to help us out. But for 15 years they sure are enjoying his millions in investments.
My wife passed away on 8/16/2024, she kept some very ecspesive jewelry in our safe, it has been there since 1998 no other person had the comanation but my wife and myself.
Well my wife was afraid that after she passed there wouldn’t be anyone close to help me. So she thought that her daughter could take care of me. But the daughter lives 4 hours away from me. So the wife thought that the daughter should have the combination to the safe incase something happened to me that way she could get to all of the important papers that she might need to help me.
Well it wasn’t the papers she wanted about one week after the daughter got here my wife passed and the next day the daughter wanted to go home, she was acting verry strange that day so she left. Then 3 days after my wife passed I went to get some papers out of the safe that’s when I noticed all of my wife’s great jewelry was gone. So two days before my wife passed I went to the grocery store for about 1 hours that’s when the daughter got into the safe and took all of the jewelry out. She more than likely put it all in her suitcase.
That’s why she was acting funny that day. She was worried that I might get into the safe with her there and catch her, but that didn’t happen.
So I call the police out and tell the Detective what happen and he says it’s more than likely a civil case and I would need to take her to civil court. That is nothing but a glorified small class court…now the daughter has nothing so even if I won a judgment I can’t collect anything.
The police here in Merced Calif would arrest any one if it’s a family member that stoled thousands of dollars it’s a civil case….
So does anyone have anything that I can do to get back everything that she stoled.?
Hi, i have been at this daily for 15 years everyday on my 2nd computer .(my first computer came new out of the box and i simply wore it out researching,and emailing attorneys or organizations that could possibly help me out with legal representation because im on SSI and Medicaid and i plain just do not have the extra money. 12 years after my 86 year old mother passed away i have hired 2 attorneys that took my money and said they could not help me and the 3rd attorney i paid him $5,000.00 cash all of my jackpot money and he filed my case in the wrong court and the judge give him 20 days to amend my petition,but he did not dop anything but show up at my apartment and have me sign a release form relieving him of his legal services. My niece and her husband took my parents veteran ,federal employees homestead property and sold it and im disabled .Could not do nothing and me and my 2 little sisters had been adopted for 33 years just to be kicked to the curb.Thank you
My mom passed away three months ago at home , my brothers 2 kids and ex wife cleared the house and took all the Valuables, They started taking items out before my mom passed . What are my rights ? Is it considered stealing not allowing children of deceased to come and make a list of all the assets and distribute equally .
Well what if your estate was stolen by the legal representatives and your sister. My mother left me in her “WILL” as the executor but because they knew my oldest sister was weaker they told me I had to waive my rights as executor because I lived in Georgia , but as I found out later that was untrue I could had been the executor wherever I resided ,plus the waiver was never signed by a judge or nor was I ever in front of a judge to do so but when I had my sister write a letter after me filing a motion to return as executor they did everything in their power to block me , gave me no paper work for the entire 2 years we was in court , which I don’t understand that and my mother had a “WILL” last will I testament and power of attorney so how did we end up in probate and civil court ? SMH, now I see why their is so much money in unclaimed funds because the powered people,Attorneys and judges are the ones stealing as well as the other family members and it’s so sad because it’s the families who are broken apart and suffering to make it through life especially knowing their mother has told them their entire life when she passes they will be set for life . My mother and father was so well organized and truly financially stable and they stole everything even her home that was paid off . And for all these years I have been still trying to find a way to make them accountable as I am still not at peace knowing how hard my parents worked to make sure her kids and grandkids were well off .
Question, my grandmother has just passed away. Her estate is very large. My grandmother had 3 children, one of them is my mother which she has passed away and her other two “my aunt and uncle” are still living. I’m her will it states that my mothers portion of the estate should go to her children. My Aunt is the executor of the will. How do I make sure my siblings and I are getting my mother’s correct share when I’m not directly listed on the will as a beneficiary? Recently, she had a life insurance policy distributed to my aunt and uncle and my aunt filled out. Supposedly an application for my mom and I am kind of worried why we are not seeing any of it. Also, my grandmother had savings accounts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars how do I know they’re not being hidden and that is going to the estate. May not being a beneficiary. It’s kind a hard to get information or do my siblings, and I have rights being the children of my deceased mother, who is actually in the will? My aunt and uncle are not happy about us receiving money, and I am very worried. They are going to try to cut us out of the picture as much as possible. I am going to start looking for an attorney, but if you guys can help with any simple information, it would be great.. thanks
Hi…I have a question,Since my two older brothers & I are all entitled to our (deceased)parents townhouse with our oldest sibling,(our sister) myself being the youngest daughter out of the four of us,.how do we (us three) obtain our portions of said townhouse? We need assistance in this matter.please & thank you,very much.
Grandma and Grandpa made me a beneficiary of their money and grandpa is just passed away Grandma still alive so there hasn’t been any reading of a will but my mom and my little brother have moved in with my grandmother and they’re spending all the money as fast as they can and they’ve stolen coins that when my grandmother asked me what I wanted when they died I said I wanted they’ve been taken what can I do
Yes I have a question I need to know my dad bought a house with my mom my mom deceased and he got married and my name was on the house policy when he first purchased the house and I want to know how and where my name get off the estate without me signing it because I was older but my dad passed I was 48 and I think it has been on signed documents and legal documents that I am here to claim my father house which they probably already sold but I think the bank need to give me the money back and she put loans on the house which she has not able to pay for but I would like to get my estate and that’s the part of my father said that he left me with my brother
A neighbor, caregiver for 6 months in secrecy… ‘inherited’ our relatives close to $1M. “inherited” not…she procured the beneficiary forms and then she filled them out…and if we don’t know our relative had investments, then quietly all gone….well…gets even worse…..I will be writing about it soon on my new Twitter page
My grandparents were married 40+ years. My grandmother died in 2017. My grandfather is not my biological grandfather but he helped raised my sister and I since young age. He had no biological children but acknowledged my grandmother’s children as his own. Since my grandma’s death, his niece, daughter of his sister, has taken him and moved him in with her. She has taken over his affairs and allowed someone to move in my grandparents house! She claims he is suffering from dementia but will not discuss any of his affairs with his “children”. Is this right? Can she legally just take over without discussing anything with my grandparents heirs?
Will I be blacklisted from obtaining the services of an attorney throughout Ohio if my sibling, who has a degree in psychology, had filed paperwork with the state of Ohio that I am mentally incompetent after I had caught her stealing a prior inheritance and now my deceased father’s items days after he passed and had lied to me about having contacted her attorney’s about probate? I will spare details of the occurrences there-after and will save it for the attorney that is willing to help me. Movie rights can be negotiated, too.
Idk what the laws and my rights are. My dad had step-children with his late wife. She, their mom, passed away 8 years ago. Now my dad has passed with no will. Did they have the legal right to take things out of his home to claim for themselves before his biological children got there and before he was even buried?
My stepsons went into my husband and my shed and took paperwork less than 24hours after their father had died. I did not give them permission and they did not inform me they were going to take files and boxes. I found out when an insurance company sent a letter saying the insurance had been cancelled by one of the sons who found the account. They did not inform me of this. Is this theft and can I request by court order for them to provide documents and other information they found but did not tell me.
Dad had a will and was supposed to be split three ways with his daughters forever my sister went in there and changed his will he had dementia for years he couldn’t even know what a phone was well anyway she got in there change the will said that he hired two lawyers himself which is impossible he didn’t even know how to work a phone she’s got all of his medical records locked down she went and got everything to her and her husband and I would like to know how how could I get somebody to open up his records for one to prove that he had dementia for years he couldn’t even dial a phone she said that there’s nothing I can do about it could somebody please call me and I can explain more so there’s got to be something that I can do I am a beneficiary I can’t even get in to see his records she won’t give me any information I mean somebody can’t just go in there and change the will and get away with it so I’m wondering if you can still make a please help me
If you take it to court there will be a discovery process, where all that information will be revealed.
You must hire a lawyer.
i would like to know if I (the granddaughter) has lived on the same spot of the family farm since 1998 and the grandfather passes away can the new owner (my uncle) make me move from the property? there was a spoken agreement not a written agreement between my father, my uncle, and my grandfather that this pc of land would always be mine but the will does not state anything concerning this. could it fall under homestead laws?
My dad and stepmom live on property he inherited and signed over to me, he is elder and he gave her other properties, can I make her move to the properties he gave her. I think he’s become a victim of elderly abuse as well
I began getting letters from a lawyer stating my grandparents (whom I never really knew) house was being foreclosured on for nonpayment of taxes. both grandparents passed couple of years ago.
Then I was personally served papers with a court date.
My dad has also passed so as his child my name is on this paperwork to be notified before foreclosure.
His family, my uncles/cousins whom I’ve never met. Began calling me after 50 years of no contact..they apparently want me to sign something. I’m unsure of what exactly is going on.
Their story is that they want to sell it before it’s taken away by the state.
But one of my 1st cousins is living in it and her ex husband was one of the names to be notified on all this paperwork i keep receiving. Her sister isn’t even on the list.
I feel like I’m not getting the full story.
I was told no one could find a will, but was also told that I would get a 3rd if house sells. (My dad has 2 brothers)
Are they wanting me to sign my 3rd away? Or they wanting my cousin to somehow continue living there?
Shouldn’t I only be asked to sign if their is an actual buyer sitting across the table from me?
Why are they so insistent on me having a zoom meeting or going to sign something?
While my ex husband was sick with cancer all over his body, and confused, his family stole the insurance money he had for me on his job, he made me beneficiary while he was sound of mind, and was still working, the family went to his job, and updated his beneficiary without his or me knowing, and got the money from me, they stole it without me knowing, please help me
Hello, my mother just passed away last week. (83). Stage 4 lung cancer, dementia.
She wasn’t in correct frame of mind. My brother proceeds to have a notary,
Come over and have my mom turn the deed of her house to my brother.
There is also myself, and one other brother. I believe it is illegal to have anyone
Who is not of sound mind do a will, or give her deed or title over to one adult
Child who lives under her roof. Am I wrong or is something fishy about this.
Sister hijacker’s our inheritance
I just found out she had a brain tumor She died 2016
Can I get my estate in Maine from my brother in law?
At times even when a person has a will & power of attorney, they since can fall prey to inheritance theft. So very sadly to say… as mine did!
I just felt there was something that could he done. However, everywhere I turned just seemed to end at a dead end. Even after reading this article, my situation falls under manipulation Inheritance! Sadly as it is, my mom & step dad both passed away after 50+ yrs of marriage. Norhing legal drawn up. My mom passed first. After her passing my dad had an attorney do his living will & power of attorney. His last few months, other siblings pulled him from his home, basically unwilling. During the months he was supposedly under their care, bank accounts closed and opened new accounts under siblings. As well as another will. About 2/3 weeks of the new, will he passed away. This new will completely different then their wishes. In saying all this he wasn’t fully coherent or understanding of everything bc had 2 prior strokes, depending on others for almost all his care, still grieving from the loss of his wife, no glasses at time of doing all this. It has been a terrible ordeal!
I truly hope something can be done or someone has legal advice or assistance…
I’m torn my mom said I’m in the will of a close relative . I was told I could have a death certificate from a relative, I said ,Yes I would like one.Then everyone yelled , “No!” So, I didn’t get the death certificate. Will my inheritance be mailed?
I am not in the legal business, but I’ve just gone through this with another family member.
In the city they live go visit the office of vital records. The man in our family petition the state and received a death certificate against the rest of the families desires. The people at the vital records office will help you.
My ex-husband of 12 years+ (deceased) signed over his pension to a girlfriend, was not with her for 3 years when he passed away. Also left a small insurance for myself and his son, I have paperwork, signed it over to her. Bank, everything. Passed away of Dementia. Is there anything we can do ??
My father had had a fall and hit his head in the courthouse in Bellingham Washington where we live and after that he got taken to the hospital and he ended up having brain surgery and after that he wasn’t the same he ended up staying in the hospital for 3 weeks and then passed away my uncle my father’s brother came up to the house took the house keys in the car keys from me and ended up getting everything out of the house somehow and taking the car and selling it I guess I heard so we must have got the title out of the house and forged it also when everything was supposed to go to me or me and my sister and our kids me and my sister are the only living people from my dad’s kids that deserve anything of his and I ended up with absolutely nothing I showed up at his apartment and everything was gone his car was gone out of the parking lot and everything I didn’t even get even a shirt of my dad’s or anything and I need to know what to do
i’m so sorry for your loss. my dad died suddenly a couple months ago, but also had a fall a year ago… thought he was getting better, we were on him to make a will… he never got there, and his partner of a few years is liquidating his estate (our family home of 40 years, four kids), keeping 70% of the cash and dispersing the remaining 30% between us kids. we worked in the orchard for decades, etc. she didn’t even ask how we were when dad died, zero contact, hosted an immediate funeral with no sermon, filed the application of self-appointed executor of my father’s estate, and waited. its been 2 months and i’ve been in the family home *once* since dad died. i was born on the loungeroom floor! the locks were changed and her entire family moved in, including an old stranger with a white beard saying he was my dad’s GF’s sister… it sounds insane, i know, it is. we are gonna try and take her on through court. just got a copy of my pa’s death certificate – multiple discrepancies… fingers crossed we can fight this and there is justice somewhere in the world.
i hope you can find peace, some people are just so unimaginably twisted. anyone here who is reading through this website. i’m so sorry. you are not alone!
In Sept of 2021 my grandmother passed away and after reading this article I would say my case falls under manipulation of my inheritance from other family members that were with here while she was doing her will and left me 75 a month till supposedly her money runs out who can help me?
I would talk to an attorney and see if there was a will or trust and if so what does it say? If none it should have gone to probate. Either way unless it was left to him he wasn’t entitled to it. If he was the trustee or executor and did not follow your parents wishes due him.
My mother has contacted her attorney to take my sister’s name off the house, but when it was time to sign the new will her health was failing. She called me and my sister to her bed.she helped my sister pay off her house., and I let her have the bank account, and she verbally agreed that the house was mine. It was over heard by three people. She has kept the money from the bank account, but refuses to sign over her half of the house. Tried to get me to give her $1470.00 to get the house in her name. Even went as far to post a lie on social media to my neicees and nephews of my deceased sister’s. That she scratched on the will and forgot about it, and also made that statement to me not knowing that my mom had mentioned it to me, and that she had a nother will drawn up.
My fiance’s grandfather died without a will almost 6 years ago. His grandmother is still living and has sold him their house. Can his family, whom she has disowned for abusive behavior, still get access to the house?
My grandparents raised me since I was 9 months old I grew up with them then as an adult I moved to Las Vegas. I didnt know it at the time that they were victims of home invasion, by the time I found. Out my grandpa had passed away. Very sad and confused about what had happened. I think my uncle there son had something to do with it all. The home invasion and he was the reason I could not go and see my grandma before she died. The last will and testament was manipulated some how and he got
Everything what do I do now
My father died of mesothelioma. My step mom is telling me there was no settlement. I need a lawyer to find out for me and help me get my part.
My gma is still alive she has a will. Everything is supposed to be split equally between her 3 kids. My mom just passed away and my aunt says we don’t get my moms inheritance. My gma was leaving a family heirloom to my mom, but she passed. Am I entitled to that heirloom?
We just lost my father and have been trying to get all my mom’s paperwork in order concerning how she wants her will be look now. This is my understanding, if the will uses the term per stirpes regarding benefits, it means that if a beneficiary passes before the the owner of the will, that beneficiary’s share of their inheritance goes to their heirs. Per capita, or maybe non-per stirpes (not sure on the legal term) is just the opposite. In a per capita will, all inheritance would be split equally between the owner’s surviving beneficiaries. Legally, that seems to be how this works. As for heirloom things, regardless of the will, I would hope those involved would consider sharing those, but legally, it depends on the wording of the will. Maybe your gma would consider gifting the heirloom to you now rather than waiting. I hope this all works out for you. I’m very sorry for the loss of you mother.
At 5:00 among our stories I have a question to ask about someone took my father’s legacy when I was little and now I want it all back and I want to know how to get back in my custody now that I am older
Why is someone using a iPhone and putting me on 13 yr old settings and phone management, and I dont have no access to no money but I have entitlement and wallets and desktop settings coming up on my android phone there looking up bankruptcy lawyers ect as me,and using my identity
Inheritance theft is a huge problem because it is so widespread. In my case, there were mutual wills that were meant to preserve assets for my sister, brother and me. My parents, who had been divorced for 28 years, also agreed in their wills that there would be no changes and no new wills without the consent of the other. My father trusted my brother to carry out the intent & wishes. But my brother, sister & my mother teamed up secretly to make a new will for my mother which breached the contract. It left out my father and me. I have been through a lot of trouble and expense for 6 years trying to recover my inheritance utilizing legal systems in 2 States and it isn’t over yet. I have learned thru discovery that my inheritance was stolen, transferred, gifted and spent by my siblings even before my father and mother died.
I believe that there have to be more safeguards and ways to protect the rights of beneficiaries. Maybe different methods of leaving assets, different types of wills, and more widespread information.
Our adversary legal system with 2 sides and their hired guns (accountants and lawyers, maybe even witnesses) fighting it out in court isn’t working. It just simply costs too much.
I am determined to do what I can to recover the gifts that I never received. My sister and brother should by all rights, be held accountable for what they did. But more importantly, I want to honor the intent of my father and mother when they entered into their binding mutual wills.
I need someone to tell me that out do I have a trust fund or money from without the foster home or somebody died or what I need to know straight out do I have money and trust and did the work program people steal it from me I know who get it because she’s all in my phone right now
After my Grandfather passed away a few years ago, I discovered his POA had depleted his entire financial estate, put him in debt and robbed me of my inheritance. I have been fighting for 2 1/2 years now, to try to find an attorney to take my case on a contingency basis, but no luck! Every attorney I have met has jumped all over the cause, but they want a 10K retainer.
I don’t have this kind of money! According to the law, this is a criminal matter if the situation is discovered while the “principle” is alive, but after his/her death, it becomes a civil matter. If it’s criminal when they are alive, it should be criminal after their death!
Totally disgusting!
My 2 nieces and their husband have came into my family who adopted me 35 years earlier and have stole everything by inheritance theft and have got away with it.
My husband’s sister is keeping his portion of his inheritance
My father said trust my brother he would giver my share of life large policy and help me probate. No he broke laws they siblings Ghost me.my memory is back and they did what they wanted cutr out mom wanted that done. Large estate in Mo
I have a mother in a care home she has Alzheimer’s she’s been there for a couple years she left her wedding ring to me in a will the rain came off her finger while she was at the care home I noticed it somebody found it and turned it in I was there at the care home instead of giving the ring back to me they call my brother I told him I would like to get the ring from him he said he was going to have it resized little did I know the care home will not let her wear that ring just in case anything’s to happen again I asked him for the ring back he said it was going to get it resized I said not to bother that I would like to pick it up I asked to pick it up the other day they said they were not home when they were I went over there his wife answered the door wouldn’t let me talk to him said he’s mad at me I said I wanted the ring back why can’t I get the ring back that I have to ask him but he’s not answering he’s not coming to the door to talk to me he said when it’s time he’ll give it back to me so I guess he’s waiting for my mom to die before he’s going to turn it over if he will turn it over at that time even to me it makes no sense why he’s holding on to it or if I will ever see it what can I do?
My father died in Virginia in 2006. My two siblings have never made it a secret that they influenced him to change his will to leave me out. He was dying at the time. My share would have been a significant boon for me. I was disabled due to mental illness, but I am far from stupid. But I did not know the law. They stole my inheritance, which one of them curiously admits to, using undue influence. I have no idea where to look for the original document or the fake one. I’m also afraid that they will do the same when my mother dies. One of my sisters had my mother living with her for almost 10 years. And, this was her favorite child. I was definitely the least favorite. This was also true of my father, but the siblings say the original will divided his assets evenly. They lie easily, especially to me. I don’t feel that I have the true story at all. I want to find the initial will and see how it was written. Is it too late to get back at my sisters and get my inheritance?
Here it is going on 14 years since my mom passed away and me being disabled on SSI still after 14 years i cannot afford a attorney still .So looks like my nieces and their retired cop husband have got away with their scam to get every thing my deceased parents have ever worked for . They got away with what they did .Sad people are so rotten and their supposed to be the good guys.
My step children stole the titles to our Harley and 3 or 4 vehicles. What can I do and how long do I have
My Aunt had my 94 year old Grandmother with Alzheimers residing in A Memory Care center in Az remove my Brother and I from her Trust after 21 years then created a new one leaving everything to herself and cousin. During our attorney fight to obtain trust informatioCA. Year later my Aunt died leaving all to her cousin in Ca. Now we’re fighting her. The emotional toll and effects are devastating on our everyday lives..
Not sure getting the inheritance back will restore my spirit or health anyway. I still lose
A former nun groomed two elderly relatives of my wife. That nun stole my wife’s entire inheritance by having having a trust created for my wife’s aunt and uncle and making herself the beneficiary before they died. My wife has two wills showing that my wife is the rightful sole beneficiary. But to undo what she did would cost tens of thousands of dollars. The aunt had Alzheimers and the uncle had cancer. The nun took full advantage of a family that was having to deal with multiple family members with cancer and illnesses and having a difficult time. She stepped in and robbed the family.
My brother has stolen my father’s entire millions of dollars estate from him and stole my inheritance. I need help on what to do
FIND A LAWYER BUT GO TO THE ASSESSORS SECURE YOUR PROPERTY
FILE TO THE IRS
My sister has taken my inheritance and car while I was in the hospital
what can i do once the damage is done and you find out 10 yrs later the will wasnt filed ?
i think my great grand parents left me inheritance and life insurance i need help finding this out please ,,,thank u sincerely …..leticia villalobos
How do I go about finding out if I have a trust in my name.
There has been a lot of mention about money around me and I have tried finding out on my own what it is about and have come up empty handed. I was told by a professional that I would never see my money, so I could just give up looking. Someone I’ve known for years told me it was about time people where I live started buying me things considering all the money I had tied to me here. But I can’t find a dime other than the chump change I have in the bank of my own. I have no clue where to look considering trusts are Not Public data.
I need help finding out about a will, and life insurance claim , and also loans..i do not have money to pay for a lawyer so if you could give me some advice i would appreciate your help ..thank you
Good morning my mom was taken from the hospital without me and my brother knowing where she was taking to from January up until February 13th my mom was not allowed to see us we were not allowed to know where she was we looked all over the place for her and when we did talk to someone they said that we were not allowed to know about her I was allowed to see my mom February 12th and then my mom died in her sleep February 13th my mom has four kids three boys one girl two of my brothers are deceased my cousin as well as the other family has stolen money has stolen her car has cash in all of our life insurance policies and is trying to cash in the other one they told me that my mom made a will and made her power of attorney over her but she did not me and my family have been going through a lot of harassment vandalism theft identity theft money stolen and the kids that my mama got custody of have been denied of us allowed to see them and talk to them as well as the dog the landlord took the money from my mom to deposit money we have been getting light on we have been getting phone calls we have been getting our mail stolen from my mom address in our address our phones have been getting hacked the finance companies have been stealing our information I have been trying to get an attorney ever since
My dad just passed away in October of 2021 his estranged wife of 13 years who left him because he had Ms has now come back into the picture I live in the state of Ohio and she is trying to take claim to the estate which my grandfather grandfather passed before my dad died by a month or so so all my grandfather’s estate and my dad’s estate are now pretty much going to her is there anyway I can challenge or fight this when my brother and I were named executor of the estate and the only two named in his will how do you challenge or fight her from claiming any of the estate value when she is not been around for 13 years even though they’re married
My father died around 2019, my dad told my mom when he was alive that he has a will and I am in it, my dad is Singaporean and I’m a Filipino and we live in Philippines. He left his will in Singapore, and ever since he died my family in Singapore never contacted me about the will, I went to Singapore and told them I was in Singapore, they didn’t let me meet up with them or tell me anything about his will.
My grandma died and some people came and told me I have assets. I saved information in my email that only my mom and sisters and brother had access to. I haven’t touched any of the assets. How do I get in reach of the people who came to let me have these assets? I’m tired of trying to get ahold of my things when I could not sign into my email I tried asking my mom about it and she told me my email was no longer. It is now some years later and I just talked to her but she helped me reset my password and all the information I saved is now gone. I don’t know where to go from here.
My father died in 2019. I was never informed by his girlfriend. She knew my father had 2 children and I met her several times. She made no attempt to contact me or inform authorities he had children. I had not talked to my father in almost a year due to a disagreement. I found out he died when I went to state to get a copy of my mothers death certificate. I contacted my fathers girlfriend and she said she took what she wanted from my fathers apt. and sold or gave away the rest including his car. They did not live together. Do I have any recourse here? She had no right to keep, give away or sell his property. I believe she had the duty to inform authorities he had children. What can I do if anything?
Note: my brother was destitute at time of my fathers death and could have used all furnishings my father had.
My grandmother has been withdrawing money for months and had my uncle hold the money until her passing.
Unfortunately my uncle passed away and when my grandmother ask her daughter in law (We will call her, “Aunt Thief”) for the money to pass it out to the family. Aunt Thief refused and was upset that she told everyone in the family about the money.
What can be done?
Also, we found out Aunt Thief also stole many items from my grandmother including my grand father’s wedding ring and my grandmother 1st bible.
Inheritance theft not worth fighting. How can I sign away responsibility for the property to avoid future bills of neglect that may occur by the individual?
I need help with saving my family’s inheritance from a thief.
My late father’s estate attorney just sent me a copy of my dad’s trust. My brother is the trustee, and I’m listed as a beneficiary of only 40 percent. My dad and I weren’t close, but neither were he and my brother. My brother was favored, though, as a son, since we were young, even though he has a pattern of stealing and being accused of stealing, although he was never caught.
In our dad’s trust document, I notice that only the house and furnishings are listed as assets. But I know that my dad had a lot of money and was very frugal. He said he paid off his house many years ago, had a good pension as a law enforcement officer with the county, was an army veteran, received social security, and even rented out some of his bedrooms. When I asked my brother about how much money my dad had besides the house, my brother was vague and gave me an extremely low number. He weakly tried to blame it on our dad’s girlfriend, claiming that she needed a new laptop and some other miscellaneous small stuff. My dad’s girlfriend isn’t at all listed in the trust.
Also, I didn’t receive a copy of the will. Is this separate from a trust?
Has anyone else dealt with this?
I’m going through something similar although my situation is far worse and knowing what I know now I would’ve done things a whole lot different. So your brother is the trustee and also a beneficiary I would imagine.
You are also a beneficiary, your dad’s girlfriend is not a beneficiary. I don’t know your jurisdiction but it’s pretty much the same concerning the fiduciary duties of a trustee. Unless the will states otherwise the trustee has a fiduciary duty to protect the best interest of the beneficiary and trust assets. Don’t take me wrong I was there too and after a year and a half of studying some things still don’t make sense. It’s very hard to fight for what is yours when you have to deal with a dishonest family member who’s in charge. You are entitled to information from the trustee but the best advice I can give you is start looking for attorneys that specialize in estate planning that offer a free consultation even if you can’t afford an attorney call as many as you can and educate yourself time is of the essence.
Good luck and never quit take care.
My grandmother left a will and my father is the trustee. My parents got divorced and my father remarried so when my grandmother passed away my father took care of things. Well years later I find out my grandmother left her grand kids money over $200,000.00 well the money has been in the bank. Now my father wants to give us the money well the wife found out how much is was and talked my father into not giving us the money We think she wants it. Is there anything we can do about it? We just found out about this and saw the will
My dad is dying. He has a will with various things going to me, my brother and my mother. My mom and dad have been divorced for years. She wants to remarry him as he is fastly declining which is something he has always wanted. They may get married as soon as Monday. He has stated to me that he would remarry her if it doesn’t effect anything. I don’t think he is of sound mind to know if he is being told the truth. Do I have any rights to protect my dad’s wishes in his final days. He tells me I am power of attorney as well as my mom but when I ask what he wants he just says, your mom knows.
GO TO THE COURT AND ASK FOR GUARDIANSHIP/CANT TAKE CARE OF NEEDS AND ASSEST DO TO PHYSICAL CONDITION HAVE THE DOCTOR WRITE YOU A NOTE OF INCOMPETENCE
Is attorney aware of new will and old will???
My partner died and affirming me as a beneficiary .he died 2021 he didnt revoke. Old will dated 2015.
Jan 20 2022 executor sent me a copy. Of 2015 saying that my partner’s last will .. i coudnt believe that…..
I feel they hide. New one and will probate old will..
Is attorney aware of. The old and new one??????
Does he know. What will to probate????
The new will supersedes the old will the attorney that drew up the will should have a copy. Could be deception on the part of the attorney. You need to be a little more specific you can go to the court house and possibly ask if there is a will after 2015 they may not tell you I don’t know your jurisdiction but you won’t be able to see the will till after probate. Hopefully they will at least tell you if there is a more current will and if there is that’s what they have to go by.
Good luck
Hello, i am a victum of my inhertance being stolen, in Maricopa county, then i requested to be put in excutor spot, i paid the fee 250. the judge combinedto cs together my step mom and my dad. Never did it get me anything but the step brother who fought me got a order charging me 13,000. for the harassment of me requesting, my rights.
Presently im going to write the court again request excutor and thast the cases be seperated as my fathers will is not my step mothers assets. I have found edvidence were my name on my fathers accounts was removed when he was sick unable to do . His health was sever, and he cried she was stealing his money, he was suicidal, he was in care home got out and she took him to the mountains when told not to, he had fallen freash out of the care hme broke his rib, then she refused to assit but forced him to go to mountains same day and he fell broke his hip. Then she took all food he was intensive care i told her he needed to feed, she removed him to hospice told me she was taking him to rehab. He passed, she had taken away his water all food all pain medicine. I was on transport and gave him ice chips he was so thristy!!!!! She got in van, used to transport him and said can she try , she lied to me and n=i called the supervisor of intensive care she stated, My father was never to leave without his IV medication. My father died ,passed ad wasnt anything i could say or do. Since then she tried to offer me little to waive my rights and to support she threatened me said she had manipulated me. She moved my dads money and never gave me his cds and accounts i was on she changed in her sons name. She got angry and stole a cd in my name, and then when she passed her son lied and tried to take my inhertance and credit union thru in interpleader i n court. I was disable from inmate assult, the credit union and courts were so mean to me. They didnt care oand refused to see my dads will, only wanted to deal with Brin and ynda i was her only benficary, Her son lied and embesseld by removing assets in Meryle Lynch never being exposed in the depostion ad said 60 thousand in Meril Edge try 280 thousand approx. I found the list of moneys and my dad said thast was mine , im not sure as maricopa county denied me accounting as they stasted i wasnt step daughter. I have never been explicidly removed and then na,ed as a harassing person because the refusel to comply to accounting or keep sacks or one thing my fathers will stated and Brain took me to court we settled half was that court. They didnt want nthing but. Its illegal behavior from these people who needd to be arrested. I filed as was advised and the stuff still happening. Then police took detective lied, then gave to another juridiction to Lapd, and presently im still waiting never heared anything back. Im going to file agin for excutor and go back to la and ask due to edviedence of step brother confessingn why he lied was he wouldnt of been able to get my inhertance if he can be prosicuted, or moneys frozen. May yu refer me to the correct advicate that is not a lyer and is able to assit. Its gross they did just about everything you spoke on your writings. My brother was excutor of my fathers will and ignored it which shows its illegal he had no represcution im next in line and judge denied it after i paid 250 for him to see me, for advanced not informal. Now i see its really informal.
Another case, im a lein holder on attorney i had that passed away he was paid in advance, his family is not adhereing to laws ,service, nothing, im proper i requested as lein hlder fees be charged her fines,Judge honored. The they took 20,000. the court did for her refusel to show, last date the judge asked me if i want to be excutor or she will have to close the case. I was told the ex wife moved in the house estate insurance says is 570,000. Where is the support for something like this. He owed me 15,000. please write me back im not sure if i didnt understand your comment. Please respond back to me,at my email. Respectfully,
Donna
I know understand more about inheritance theft and how a specific lawyer really should be hired on specialized cases, may it be a marital or special needs trusts. I would really understand the need for financial planning especially if you have children that may need a lifetime of specific care. Additionally, when you own estates or nay assets, consulting a financial planner would always be the best option if you want to know how to have security for years to come.
I have been dealing with since 12/2018 when my mother had a stroke. and my sister could not have been any happier if she won the lottery. the doctor said our mother will have to go to a nursing home. and my sister said immediately mom will come to live with use. at the farm house that also belonged to mom and dad. it was just what my sister was waiting for. it was about 7 months and my sister was able to manipulate. and take my mother to a attorney and to sign power of attorney to ( steal ) everything from her siblings. there is no use for you to waste time and money. especially since there are absolutely no boundaries she has more power then the president of the united states. anyone with concerns will not be able to object in the court. you have no rights any more the constitution doesn’t exist for you. I have been to 5 attorneys talked with them extensively how are sister stealing everything. I explained to them all I want to do set up day with a judge. where my mother and judge can talk about how everything is to be divided up. here is what they told me ( it`s over) ( forget it ) ( move on ) your life. this is not there exact words
I am one of seven siblings under my parent’s will and they are still living as of right now but my father has severe dementia and my mother is easy persuaded into signing papers without truly knowing of what she is signing. In the middle of the year of 2021 my sister had a power of attorney and got another sister to join in this but will allow full control over their income and all of their actions due to the conditions that stands with both parents. They did this by getting a lawyer that my sister was good friends with to get them situated and also too forced my parents to live with them for 6 months. My thoughts along with another sibling knows of how thrifty my father was over the years and he has retired for over 25 years along with both parents drawing social security and knowing this we are seeing that there are obvious signs that the two are sweeping things under the rug such as exaggerated bills and costing money with other issues. Is it too late for us to stop this? We have no idea of what to do because of course this is the first time seeing this and not knowing of how the law is. If anyone has any suggestions of advice that can stop this please let us know. Thanks
Adopted my 2nd time in 2 states & right before my 76 yr old bedridden dad passed on Sept.01,1990 he showed me his will where it read that he leaves everything to the eldest son which is me & for 16 yrs mom did not change her will till in 2006 when mom was 86 yrs old my niece and her cop husband moved mom off her estate of 61 yrs to their house which me and my 2 little sisters didn’t have there address until mom passed 2 yrs later when nieces husband called me to tell me that my mom had passed away & then he provided me with his address only 2 find out in that 2 years they had mom hid from us kids that they brought in a new lawyer not our family attorney and had mom sign a trust making my 2 nieces the only 2 beneficiaries and dis inherited us 3 adopted kids of being with this family over 34 yrs. Kicked to the curb in Oklahoma city again & been trying for 13 yrs to have my one day in court to be heard and hired 3 attorneys and spent all of my money over $6,000.00 and still haven’t been given my 1 day in court for my opprunity to be heard.This has left me fat,bald and broke.Now I’m broke on SSI, ready to die ,I’m so tired and now I can get no help because I am broke .
In 2016 June 30 my trust funds were stould.the sec stold my propety.endevert along with DTC,I won’t my propety back I field complains ,to police and sec and government tresery places part in this so does FDIC,BUT THE SEC,THAY STOLD LIED MISLED CHETED ME OUT MY FUNDS FOR THE BANKING THEVES get my money back the Mellon accounts now,mjrdelao.
Hi my mom died on 6/13/2021. She had dementia, so she made my sister power of attorney. Since my mom went blind, my sister spent over forty thousand dollars of my mom’s money. She then no effected to tell me mom had two policies. I was beneficiary on one she on the other one. Shenmade me a contingency took out a loan on mine. Didn’t leave enough money to bury mom. I’ve been staying there caring for mom four years straight. She let her daughter move in with three kids. Her daughter came in throwing out my things. She threw out my practically new Christmas 🎄🎄 tree. All of the ornaments, I told her she could have mom’s room. So she has two of the rooms, hers has a bathroom. Now she wants me out. I know she can’t put me out, but what can I do I was thinking about may a police report, but when I tell them all that’s going on and show ownership, they will make her leave.
I need a good beneficiary attorney in the Cola.,SC area asap
my step son cleaned out mine and his dads saving account of 800,000.We knew he wrote checks because he had lost his job in the bank. He is a CPA and does audits for churches to see if they can build on.His dad was real bad with cancer 2 years before he died.When his dad died he wrote me a check for 20,000. and told me that was all we had.there was suppose to be money for me to pay off the house and car.I think he bought a business from Henry Wood in Minnesota doing audits .I need help to at least pay the house and car off.I get ss 1680.00 I barely get by.He should not have done that.
One option that has been gaining in popularity when you have greedy heirs in an estate you cannot trust, trying to steal your inheritance assets… that are inheriting the same home you are – you can simply buy them out. With funds from an irrevocable trust, from a trust lender. A solution for middle class heirs that just don’t have the hundreds of thousands of dollars it will take to litigate something like this to defeat siblings you despise who are trying to steal your inheritance.
Heirs looking to keep an inherited home can get an irrevocable trust loan (working in conjunction with Proposition 19), to keep a low property tax base when moving in as a primary resident; plus if need be use that trust loan to buyout any co-beneficiaries looking to sell their inherited property share… a sibling-to-sibling property transfer, with more funds than an outside buyer would provide. That’ll keep greedy siblings happy and get rid of them altogether! Problem over.
We should also step back and acknowledge that Prop 19 and Proposition 13 allow California beneficiaries and heirs to transfer parents property taxes when inheriting property and inheriting property taxes – and keep parents property taxes basically forever, establishing a low property tax base through a parent-to-child exclusion. But the key here is avoiding property tax reassessment, while the siblings selling their property shares get far more cash than selling to a conventional buyer, involving a broker or realtor, charging their 6% commission, legal fees, transaction fees, etc. For info on all this, go to the CA State Board of Equalization at https://www.boe.ca.gov The more you know, the better off you’ll be when the situation arises that requires this kind of know-how!
I am a widow and my son is trying to take over the ownership of my home.
See an estate lawyer or elder law attorney ASAP! Go immediately. And throw him out, evict him, if he is residing there.
I love my brother & sister Still! When I was young had a learing problem.
My Mother & Father put a lot of time helping me.This was taking time away from my brother & sister. I was told I have dyslexia witch is now called ADHD.
My brother and sister only would tease me make jokes and would do many bad things to make me feel useless. I was a kid I didn’t know all the things were bad I thought is was love.
Now my Brother &sister set up a living trust With out telling me and did not put all my dad’s property on the living trust and left the one property that I alone get by myself.
How can I put the property the one they left out.? This was done to hert me.
My brother was a signer on my elderly father’s accounts. When dad fell terminally ill, my brother emptied out the accounts (several hundred thousand dollars). Brother also cannot find the Trust. How is this not a crime?
My father had several months to adjust his will to reflect his intent to leave me his house.
In another reading of the will I know she stated not being not able to find me.
It was conceivable that she either remove the video il to my fathers will and basically violate everyone’s wishes.
I wish someone would give me a polygraph.
I want to know how do I find my fathers will and lawyer as well the notary she sought to make changes to her will to accommodate my brother who had her make additional changes before and after she was declared incompetent following a stroke that altered her personality significantly enough to be expelled from independent living facility. There was also my aunts wishes that were ignored. I ended up with so little that I basically gave it away. This pain of being swindled doesn’t let up and is behind my last cancer. I am traumatized and wanting Justice for my father. He never intended me pain. Please tell me where to find the original wills and lawyers handling these fraudulently adjusted wills.
My father told me he was leaving me his house as he knew my mother was returning to Quebec the first chance she got. My younger brothers were to get nothing. He had disinherited one and the other disappointed him in letting him catch him treating me badly. Dad knew that my mother had contracted rubella and used both Dexadrine and diethylstilbestrol which predisposed me to both cancers and neurological disorders. My father very much considered me autistic although the way it is defined today doesn’t take into account the very real neurological damage. I am blind in one eye as well as face blind (Prosopagnosia) and have always had auditory discrimination & processing issues.. I grew up in government run group home because my school removed me from what they thought was an abusive situation instead of seeing my neurological issues along with adhd.
My narcissistic brother discouraged my mother from giving me the house dad wanted me to have and twice had my mother readjust her will to first exclude my child from the equation and then again to divide the estate between them. This included my aunts estate which she also wished for me to have. I know my mother explained that I could not be found. Half truths were her modus operandi. She resented the attention my father gave me and saw that I got so little I didn’t keep the amount. My father never intended for me to be hurt.
My mentally disturbed mother was extremely abusive and vindictive in à most uncommon way. My brother took advantage of her illness. This isn’t about the losses that cannot be recovered as much as it is about defending my father against a son who he held little regard. I’ve no issue with the youngest considering him to be entitled to reparations for the abuse he was subjected to. I consider that the other brother committed fraud in knowingly having my mother rewrite the will to his standards after she was declared incompetent and lost her place in the independent retirement facility she inhabited. She’d asked me to move in to stay there but w/ conditions that reduced my life to homelessness yet again. I lost everything after she did in fact give me dads house for a few hours this in her mind honouring my dads wishes. He didn’t specify that I actually be allowed to keep it. In her weird mind that was enough. The abuse I was subjected to was criminal
My grandma who’s lived her whole life was intimidated by cartel to leave her property. She does not have paper work for the land but lives their for over 40 years, is their anything we can do????
I was the victim of identity theft and may of had a inheritance left to me by my father I was unaware of. Iq believe it may of been a sum of four million dollars and believe it may have been a ex girlfriend and a couple others . How would I go about find this out . I believe it was a account in Microsoft left by my father I made a police report and also had my identity flagged at the irs . What would b my way in finding and receiving my money???
Microsoft has to give you that money it was there fault for going for the
Okie-doke it was all there fault if you think your friends had something to do with it with you and Microsoft working together it shouldn’t be a problem
I Was left an account by Clarence Guy Cox/Gray J. Sprinkle both my 2 grandfather’s how do I get my money please help me and thank you !!!!
Do I have any rights or is it even worth it other than to make my step brother see what I feel is wrong? My Biological mother passed 5/6/20. I loved with my mother and step dad for over a year to help them and help care for my mother who had End stage copd and my stepdad, who was basically my father, who had multiple diseased from agent orange exposure while in Vietnam. Well after my mother passed exactly three months later my dad passed on 8/6/20. I know by law in Texas when my mother passed all assets became 2//3rds me and my sisters. They both had life insurance policies of 20K each. I was second beneficiary on mothers and step brother was on my dads. It was a day or two before my passed and he was completely incoherent and unresponsive on hospice at home were I was caring for him when the life insurance check for my mother came in the mail. My step bother who sold the policy to them sat at the mailbox and waited on it that day until it came, HE took it from the mail carrier got in his car and went and deposited it into my dads account. He had already taken his wallet with the bank card while he was in the hospital two weeks prior. He also the same day had a notary come in to get my dad to sign a POA, remember hes completely incoherent and unresponsive, but takes my dads hand and places on paper for it to make a scribble. And then uses this to try and get money from bank. My dad had told me that he put me on the bank account also but brother said I was not on their. In the time that my brother had the bank card he purchased an entire heating and cooling system inside and out for his house and withdrew at least twice a week 800.00 each time for right at 30 days. I never seen a penny. Then he paid off the car load and the shed with that money and in turn took possession of them along with the house he manipulated the person my dad was buying it from to place solely in his name. Then when they released the money in the account he contacted me to come to the bank because they wouldn’t release the money only to him as it turned out, I was on the account as my dad had stated, so I did get 1/2 of what was left of the money which was maybe right at 5400.00. and that was it. Is their anything I can do or is it even worth it. My brother got the house the car the shed and about 1/2 the items inside because I couldn’t get them all in time before he evicted me.
I believe my niece hijacked my parents estate, I received a check (that I have not cashed), and I have also questioned estate expenses. If I cash the check, do I lose my right to question expenses and pursue legal options against her?
I can relate to a lot of people on here, I’m curious to know if anyone got the answers they’re looking for? Because this whole page says 911 ALL OVER IT!!! No way people can get away with this type of stuff unless the heir is being kept in the dark purposely and has their data being controlled from a remote source network that is feeding the heir nonsense and pushing her away from the truth!! It’s sad! My dad was a doctor and his so called family in another state cremated him when we have paperwork that he paid for his own casket and left money for us to give him a proper burial. My po po also passed away in the recent years and had TWO FUNERALS, one in Texas, and the other in Oklahoma!!! How is this even possible? Where is justice? I WILL FIND HIM. A forensic accountant, I’ve been told, is what I need to locate any accounts associated with both of those great men who were in my life. I will update this thread soon! Gotta be a lifetime movie on this ridiculousness!!!
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I have a question for you. What what motive would a fiduciary have to manipulate an incapacitated ward to change her will? They are baiting a friend of mine into changing her will and they are having or shall I say “paying” a psychiatrist to evaluate her and say she can change her will. This ward wants desperately to go home and live but I can tell you now that she is unfit to live in her home. Today her guardian brought her to her home to see her daughter. I have been in the same assisted living facility as she and her guardian has never taken her out anywhere except for doctor’s visits. We both have the same fiduciary and guardian and I have lost over $600,000 from the thieves. I know they have a motive but I don’t know what it is or how to find out. Thanks
My uncle claim an man as his son. But an DNA test says not related. Going thur an estate disabution. Not finding any adoption papers can he claim his share of the funds. My grandmother left he trust or estate to her heirs. The lawyer who handing the case. Says he wants to set the man share aside for him to come up other proof. He live in my grandmother’s house for several years be cause my uncle lived there. He never married the woman nor adopted him legally. Can he get any share of the money
You literally could not have said it better bro so I had a trustee of a state that he made my grandmother sign when she was in Florida without me at like 97 years old and listed and listed $34000 for the fees in the sale of the house that we only sold her 50 after he 1st of all falsified legal documents and the documents and his documents were just absolutely absolute absolute absolute absolute absolute absolute absolute absolute absolute absolute absolute absolute absolute absolute absolute absolute absolute absolute absolute absolutely absurd like he needs to learn how to make fake stuff vision and try it but I don’t understand how no one will pick up a case even the bar association won’t deal with it I don’t know what to do . Also he was removed by a judge as the trustee in 2018 when the house run into my name because he tried to listen as a resort and he tried to go 3 different times to say I didn’t exist to get my inheritance in the name of 100 and twentieth’s daughter who was 9 and sa that her money should be hit so it’s more about retributing the situation than money you mean it shouldn’t the money to me because she did the same thing in my Ga my grandmother
I have recently lost my husband married by customary marriage and we have 2 children. Concerns arise as he has me as his sole beneficiary to the house worth R 950 000, however he has other assets of monetary value such as pension, retirement annuity. My problem comes where his siblings want sole ownership of what rightfully belongs to his wife and children. I find it disturbing that they believe that my husband has an automated duty of support to his siblings that are over 21 and his parents. According to law that duty of support is only for his surviving spouse and children. Inheritance theft and war has already erupted barely 2 months after burying my husband. It is so sad that this war will cause a rift between families resulting in them not being able to see their grandchildren yet they don’t see that now all they want is money. Most of our assets where joint assets, how does one share such assets with people that haven’t contributed a cent to them yet they feel entitled?
What a great article, I identified with almost every sub-sections because I’ve been fighting in Probate Court for (4) years. My parents could have benefitted from reading about safeguarding their assets from thieving heirs. There are (4) siblings, 1 a 71y/o pediatrician w/ 2 sons 24 & 27 who forged a Will appointing herself then she appointed her son as Administrator; another sibling that is a college professor was appointed as Trustee by parents. My parents realized the two of them were not to be trusted but never went back & changed the Estate Planning documents. Both parents are deceased leaving their 1.4 million homestead in a family Trust & Estate property worth another approximate mil. To be divided equally between(4) heirs. Trustee brother sold homestead to Administrator/doctor for 1/4 of property value. She has now given the property to one of her sons for his business. Other two heirs knew nothing of these shenanigans. The two of them tried to sell Estate property to each other, property not solely belonging to them, both parents were alive so this was done under their nose. The sell didn’t happen because professor heir got mad @ girlfriend who wanted a piece of the pie. Both heirs were sued for cashing Ernest $ ck. The two of them kept it quiet & worked it out unbeknownst to parents. The doctor has stolen $100 of $1,000’s of $ from my mom as her POA. She took mother to sign a Will she created
Needed to compose you a very little word to thank you yet again regarding the nice suggestions you’ve contributed here.
I’ve got a case as the youngest of three siblings that cover five types of law, 8 dead and four million (minumum) missing. This is all Dad’s money from 1991 when he died. Sister hid 980k under Mom’s nose. Thirty years later sends big brother to retrieve. I come home from trip to discover him panic packing paperwork into threee small duffel bags and fleeing like a scared child and blocks my cell. Sister forces shady deed on Mom as well as gets deed to house. Mom isnt verl allowed to read anything but sister forces signatures on everything in one day. Mom dies, sister lies over and over about every detail. Moms body is set to go to coroner and she stops exam and buries her asap and bills brother. Trust violations all over that. Plus she hasnt answered for drugging then having husband killed a decade earlier. All deaths she is around are listed as heart attack. Totally impossible as ages ranged from 40-97 and all of different heredetary backgrounds. Yeah, Im supposed to law up and pay a guy. I did and he ran with the initial 3500 and demanded 10k a month after beginning. Self representing in LA County so basically I am David & Goliath in the digital world. Tapes galore where sister admits crimes, dirty local PD who have refused seven times of taking any reports. If I survive her three death threats I’ll update you after my eviction trial this week.
wow what happened
sold a peace of land to some ond that I got from a grandfather and it was to remain in the family name and she turned around and sold it and she got over 1000000$ and I sold it to her for 10000$ can I do any thing
If I have proof my brother-in-law who appointed himself executor, has stollen from the estate, can I go after him legally even though my husband who is the beneficiary doesnt?
In most cases, you must be an interested person to the case.
My dad passed away in 2019 & I didn’t know that he had left me his house. I didn’t find out til a couple months ago that I was applying for social security because it cane up in the information. I thought it was a lil weird that I wasn’t allowed at the will when it was read to everyone but I thought nothing of it because me & my dad weren’t speaking at the time. Well now my brother lives at the house with my mother & I found out that now the house is in my daughters name & not even my mothers name who is still alive. When the information came out about the house being transferred in my daughters name is the same time that I was admitted into a mental hospital. I just wanna know what happened & who did what behind my back!
My oldest brother is the power of attorney my mom live with him she 87 years old he is spending her money how he feels like what can I do about this I live in different province from them. Thanks
I really need help. My mother’s two twin sister’s either changed my grandmother’s will that her and my grandfather had that was just alike. What can I do to help her get what my grandmother left her?
I would like to handle this soon.
i believe my inheritance has been stolen and i was not even ben notified that my family was deceased
My Dad died on Sept 25th.Im losing my mind and heartbroken. He lived in Warner Robins as of 2012 with my sisters name on his checkbook.I was told he died in his sleep Oct 3rd thru a text.There is no will in Houston County and I was not even told of funeral yet my name was atop his obituary?my sister told my son he had nothing to leave. Dad was a veteran,retired epidemiologist,and always had life insurance?how could my dad leave me with nothing and no family.im on verge of breakdown and no $$ for atty.i asked for photos so do I need an atty to demand those.sister also has my $ blocked. He lived in Brunswick GA over 29 years but an old will wouldn’t entitle me?rigjt.
My uncle menulated my brother into sighing his 3rd of inherenece. He had a bad drinking problem at that time, my uncle gave him 500.00 dollars which only get 200 of it. My brother is now baptized, and has not drinker in almost 3years. Does he have a right to anything??? My uncle has brought 2 new trucks this year and 4wheelers, etc .Its been 8years since he menulated my brothers, Plenty of Red flags
Hi was just wondering my mom just passed away she has three kids she loved it she didn’t raise I didn’t meet her until I was fourteen from the time I met her I hate say that it was drama and disappointment but I still done the right thing as a daughter and help take care of my mother when she got sick for six months to be turned to the streets me and my baby brother I didn’t let that pretty much of everything my oldest brother and his wife is taking over all of her things just wondering where we stand on anyting since she abandoned us as children
My ex husband passed away last Sept , he never got remarried , but we do have a son together . He did not leave a living Will either , So does all his assets goes to our only Son ? Since also has sister that was never married & a brother that is married with kids .
My ex husband,s brother , had told my son that his sister also is entitled to
the assets , she is doing well financially & have place of her own .
My son does not own any thing , does not have any money , I help him with his expenses , when he needed. fir himself & his two sons .
My son is single right now & was never married his girlfriend even though they have 2 son,s . But the only problem right now is my son,s uncle ,that keeps
calling him , or texting him . My ex,s sister is 80 years old , the brother knows that she might not live long , so after she is gone He will be the next keen to him & will get everything .
So please make this clear for me that does my Ex,s sister is entitle to any thing ? Or all my ex,s state goes to my son .
Sincerely
malihe
My father is elderly, and has handed over all of her investments and asset to my sister. I am supposed to inherit the investment accounts and bank account which were about the as much as his gorgeous house on the water, my sister gets the house and land. My dad doesn’t even know how to access his checking account but trusts my sister implicitly even though I know she is a complete narcissist and hates my guts. I am 99% sure my sister is stealing from my dad and who knows she may even have convinced him to let her spend his money. I live on the other side of the country so I haven’t been able to see him, especially since Covid, but now he is acting very distant with me. Is there anything I can do? I feel like if I ask for an investigation I will be cut out of the will entirely, because my Dad thinks my sister is god and she is the doctor in the family so who would believe me? My dad lives in Delaware, any suggestions would be welcomed.
I am my mothers only son and my stepfather has hid or destroyed the will my mother had and has prepared it to where I was cut out of what I was entitled to
Now its no surprise insurance company don’t tell you that you have inherited anything or neither do they bother to look for or make some search for a loved one right?? Well this is sounds even crazier: 2020 you get application for a life insurance policy from company you never have contacted but then you see a bank product that you have been in contact recently. So you go head and fill it out and send everything they ask for! Then no response, not even thank you we are in reciepent of your letter, no common curiosity. To call me either, however I call asked if they recieved my forms or not and would like a status update!!? Then insurance agent says” oh this policy was canceled in 2004!!! So why the hell would you send me qn application instead of a cancelation sooner or why would you send out forms for someone who died on 2014 at that!! 15 years lqter!??? What can I do I feel like they just took advantage and delayed or denied my claim without me knowing it?
I am not sure if this is comment. My situation is different. I need help. If anyone could assist me.. My dad ex-Marine ( USA)) retired. Me and my 2 sisters are unaware of what is going on. My stepmom is the executor of the Estate.
Nothing I can do. My 2 sisters are in the States.
My mother passed a year after she took out a second mortgage . And I live with her and took care of her for many years why a lender would let a terminally ill person take out a second mortgage ill never understand. She did make out her will and name my brother the executor and I was given the estate . But since she didn’t have time to tell me what was going on I had no idea on what to do so I just paid on the mortgage that she left .Then after 8 years my brother decided to open the estate and had me pay for a lien that was on the house and I had to file bankruptcy so I could afford to pay the mortgage and the attorney I had gotten misrepresented me and the lender if my mothers mortgage sued me fir the estate and then a car hit the house and I lost all income I was so overwhelmed with everything I didn’t know what to do and the house went into default and then foreclosure and ruined my credit . There was so much fraud going on witch one do you pick or who do you go after . I know that was not my deceased mothers wishes for me to be homeless when she passed. I was very much taken advantage of. And someone should be accountable for the way I feel every day. I can let this go I don’t expect money I just want justice and closure.
contact state bar association also you can call attorneys in that area and ask to take the case on a contingency or ask questions and get answers with your free consultation
I have stage 4 bone cancer which was diagnosed as Mets in 2016 but docs read report wrong, 4.5 yrs ago my neice like a sister lost her daughter 4.5 yrs. ago the daughter was a drug abuser had a child while under drugs and the child is autistic , the reason the daughter died I was told was blood clot!
This nieces mother could not fly home or did not want to but she was not hated and I was told “ if aunty stops by we will shoot her” I just found out this comment and hurt is not a big enough word ? I came home to die with my 2 children abs she came out demanding the hall tree when I died and also took my jewelry box which had thousands worth of gold silver diamonds. . I think the best bet is call attoeney
I am a Filipino and living in USA as US citizens and we my brother’s has an inheritance heir way back to our country Philippines and we decided for renting the property but my cousin also living here in USA which he was collecting money to our property rent that which we don’t authorized him and has no rights to our privacy property legal.
Can we file a sue or complaint to my cousin? What should be the case is it a thief?
My son gave durable power of attorney to his father, since then my son continues to ask how much money was giving to him from inheritance from grand father and aunt ,he would like to know how much and we’re has he spent money and would like a bank account opened in his name for money to go into to keep track of it my son has been incarsrated
WELL, MY MOTHER DID NOT GIVE HER SISTER POWER OF ATTORNEY, SHE ALSO HAD A DURABLE BUT IT WAS DIED AFTER MY MOTHER DIED IN 2014, AND THEY STILL USING MY INFORMATION. AND GOD ANIT PLEASED. EVERYTHING EVERYONE POST HAS HAPPENED TO ME AS WELL AND I FEEL YOU’LL PAIN AND LOSS. AM A LIVING WITNESS OF IT ALL OF WHAT HAPPEN TO OTHERS.
My husband and I lived on the same piece of property since 1995 along with his parents, since their unfortunate passing (2020 & 2021) my sister & brother in law to whom used to be sweet and perfect has own businesses and married doctors, have became evil, they are threatening us w eviction, fraud, theft, trespassing, threatened to lock us out of our home which is included in the will but at the same time we couldn’t work bc 1) pandemic 2) we were giving responsibility threw hospice to care for our parents. The other siblings had absolutely NOTHING TO DUE W THEM! I’m scared their putting us on the streets, we have small children and no money!
Please someone give us some advice/direction to turn too.
Thank you
S. Hokams
I know what you are talking about because all these things happen to me plus I found documentations of the Theft, I know whos behind it all, but they could not take the house from me, they just took the house that they got all those mortgages and loans in my name and it was my mother’s too but she died, she couldn’t take it anymore but they have a fight on the hands with my(Laura Ann Reaves) Evelyn Reaves only-child in this world. They know that I do not have the money to fight back like I should. Identity Theft should give me the MILLION because I am due for it.
I even hold a SOUTH CAROLINA TITLE CLEARNING FORM THAT WAS FIED IN CLECK OF COURT IN MARION, SC 29571, AS WELL.
Trust sibling manipulated me and then erased me. They are all benefiting from the estate I on the other hand have been nickel and dimed . They defamations of my character and they are all in on it
My mom and her brother got there dads money after he passed I dint live with her she is crushed and now is depressed and her and her brother was supose to split the money but her brother signed paper and his girlfriend is the one thats supose to split it he got a lawyer to get her to be the person without being in trouble for it my uncle did somthing he has all the money and my mom crystal and crystal asleep everyday and I feel bad for her I want to help her but im busy and really not good at talking and dont even. Know how to help her my self my uncle buying and spending the ?hundreds of thousands of dollars and not giving her anything can u plz help her
what do you do if your an heir and dealing w a stepmom who hates you and you know she has used a will from 2006 that overrides any other will in existence but its not what your dads final wishes were and you have reason to believe she may of killed him too?
I am the daughter of a mother in the last stages of alzheimers disease, she in Florida, I in New York State. He is also in Florida and is the POA/Guardian of she and her Estate. He does not keep me informed and my sister is the Executor in New York State. She has lied to me..both visiting Mother doing who knows. She has given them much money over the years…they shutting me out. I am a legal heir but they do not keep me informed…what can I do? To protect my rights! He coerced my mother to be POA in the early stages of Alzheimers.She paying for his medical care and his daughters Vet Center. Can I anonymously have him investigated. Have he and my sister forced to be transparent, accountable. How do I protect myself from him in Florida..I in NYS? She is entering Hospice. IIIIIIIIIIMy brother has been abusive to me all my life , with sister making themselves closest to parents Estates. My Father deceased also! What advice can you give to protect myself and take action befor she passes!
My friend passed away and there’s two other people trying to take over his vehicle they already sign the pink slip and got a feel of spell how can I stop them from doing this because it doesn’t belong to them
my brother has ripped me off of my inheritance and need help to getting my 100,000.00 dollars or more please help me
i think i am being cheated by my family or some other force, never been accepted or appreciated no matter how hard i try. So all they do is rob me blind for everything i have worked hard to build. i have been trying for so long just to keep sane. a black cloud of rain has been overhead and im tired of being treated like a fool. i have someone now ruining my credit, iv let it go on for years im looking for help in reasserting control in my personal assets. i know its not your problem but any assistance would be greatly appreiciated.
My Uncle died in Jan 1, 1980, he left money [$8,000] for each of us, *8 nieces and nephews. My mother kept mine, how do I get my share? My mother passed away In June 2011. Are the attorneys liable for my mother not giving me my inheritance? What can I do?
I have the records, in my possession, in the bank where he kept the money. My siblings stated my mom, signed my name, to show I received the monies.
I was adopted by my grand father AT 13 AND HE always told me he had my kids and us set up I’d anything happens to him. He was a millionaire probably 2-3 million at least but was at an assisted living family for 16 months and my uncle who quit speaking to my grandfather 25 years ago and always spoke I’ll of him and said don’t trust him send stay away from my grandfather. Well, he was somehow moving him to different homes so my grandfather’s who had ahlshiemers wouldn’t get viditors— ge wanted and always Said he wanted him to die alone but I think he was trying to steal his money or my inheritance. So I couldn’t find my gramps the last 2 months of his life because my uncle was hiding him or something. When he passed my uncles wife called me and said he died and I layer found out the called me 1 hr after funeral just so no one would go to his funeral— my uncle had serious daddy issues. Long story short is his wife called me from several states away from where I and my grandpa live. She stated that he had a few things lime a picture of my kids abd a few papers bit nothing of value. I had just lost my mom, grandma and was going thru a tough time so I said just go ahead and send ne pictures of the stuff and said “I’ll let you know what I would like but I do want his war metals” she said she didn’t know where they were and she would and that was the last I heard from her. It’s been 5 years. I would have investigated earlier but I didn’t know what he was worth and I just thought he didn’t leave me anything. My husband brought to my attention that my adopted dad/gramps was worth 2-5 million and eas a Korean war vet pilot. A n accountant/ investment broker for 50 years and received retirements for almost 30+ years from 2 careers and from airforce for 55 years. He didn’t have any payments for purchases the whole time and only had utilities payments. No house payment no car psymenysand my grandma had her retirements and she was a banker as well. All this I never really knew or thought about until my husband said he thought my uncle used to try to tell ke how bad my grandfather was and would always say to syay away from him because he likely wanted my inheritance. This was in 2016 but I was at least a 50/50 hier and mu grandparents had plots at cemetery and always told me he had a will and it didn’t change when my grandma died which supposedly had Lans in it for me. So, what happened to everything,I bever received anything besides my uncles wife saying ge had a couple papers and a pic of my sons his only namesake to be passed on. Is ot too late to look into because I was never contacted about a will or even saw one. My husband thinks he probably took the money w h Ile he was in the nursing homes with alsiemers but us there a way to find out. My grandparents always said they had wills taken care of and done right so why was nothing brought to my attention and how do I find out how much was stolen from my sons because it’s likely an awful amount. My uncles acts like he hated his dad more than anything in life send this wad an on-going trend for 30+ years. Is it too late to do anything considering lts been since 2016 but I’m assuming laws were broken at least were mosy-likely broken and hiding wills/ financial info took place i believe. Can I find out what was taken? And at least try to hold people accountable or at least let it be known that they did steal. We had a rough last 5 years, I lost my home, was useless with kids and went back to school and was straight a student for 3.5 years until the pandemic destroyed our world 6 months from graduating with 3.98
Gpa. So I wasn’t really thinking of dealing with lawyers and courts a5 years passed quickly. Anything would help I just want to know how to find copies of a will maybe
Need advise and know I should seek legal advise and have to no relief. Family buys house 1975. Mom dies 1981. Dad remarried 1986. Stepmom and 3 adult sons move in , I move out. Dad dies 1989. Dad signs a bill of sale for 1 dollar for son and daughter and stepmom steals it never seen again. Step family remains in house, no probate and can’t find a filing of my dads will. One step bro dies, in 2006 stepmom dies. Never notified of probate or anything. Step bro’s remain in home which is now a disgusting mess. One by one the step bro’s die and again never notified of either. Last step bro dies November 2019. Sometime around June or July 2020 I am surfing internet and checked up on the house and see that last step bro has died and estate is at the end of probate. Again I should most defiantly been notified and most certainly would call myself a very interested party. Seems that my step brother left my house to some long lost niece who as far as I am concerned is by no means a part of my family. Well she has sold the house and paid of what ever creditors and I want my house back or I want her accountable to me the rightful heir. Paper work like deeds , quick claimed etc all contain the wrong names in the wrong places. The whole thing is underhanded and wrong to say the least. Can I sue that executor for the amount of estate. This is in Nevada where I believe what was acquired before the marriage is considered separate property? Help I really need it before I lose my mind.
You mentioned that legal fees for a trust can deplete trust assets. I didn’t think heirs had rights to use trust money for legal purposes unless an heir is also the trustee and using funds to uphold the terms of the trust. From what I understand, if an heir who is not a trustee is disputing the trust, they must pay out of pocket or their attorney should arrange a contingency plan.
How can I prevent losing my inheritance.
My inheritance is being sold under my feet by my nephew , waterfront land worth 450k what can I do it was 1/4 mine and my brother gave it to his son and my Parents are still alive
i just need help how dose this probate stuff even work
I am in need of a lwyer5to help me with my father and mother’s home. both my parents are passed away and it’s alot to text on here so without all the details I’ll just say that my sister and I are in need of a lawyer and we are both broke. we have step- siblings that are trying to take a claim to our parents home and I don’t think they have a right to. I’m afraid something has already been done with my dad’s will. I don’t know but if there is a lawyer out there that can please help me I would greatly appreciate it. I won’t be able to pay until our house get sold. I’m really desperate cause I’m afraid I might be getting screwed out of something that’s rightfully mine. thank u
My spouse keeps asking me say every 6 months how much of my inheritance l have left ln my safe ? I asked him why and he says ltß lmportant to know l gave him some of lt would you be suspicious we have been together now for 40 years but why ls lt so lmportant to him to know ?? He could prob open lt lf really wanted to ,but has never stolen anything from me just curious lf you would be concerned ty
Never trust a step-parent
My brother stole 8,000,000 in Gold coins from our mother while I was caring for her in Florida, she filed a police report but they seem to not care about the theft. She passed last year and I am doing her estate tax how do I handle this theft? Can I sue my brother for the return of the gold?
My Dad passed away.I never was included, or in contact of my Dads will.I always felt something was kept from me.If whoever has a copy of the will my Mom or Sister won’t give it to me what can I do to get it,so I know what my Dad wanted.
It should be in Probate check with the Local office and see if you can obtain a copy of the will there.
I am a widowed senior cancer patient. My daughter is my power of attorney and has been for years. She is going through a bad divorce. My soon ex son in law has stolen many antiques I lent the business. Police would even take a report as he and his girlfriend carried out my belongings. He has been physical with me..he is 6’6″ I’m 5′. He also is claiming my forever home in Maine as I had my daughter handle the purchase with my funds. I now live on my ss and am very afraid of my son in law. Police told me to hire a lawyer that it’s his word against mine.
I am in a trust probate case now. My stepmother used a special power of appointment to remove 2 of my fathers children myself and my sister. My attorney made a serious error In not filing a opposition to a demure. He even filed an affidavit of fault. My stepmother forged my dads signature on multiple trusts. I had the known signatures compared to the unknown signatures looked at by a forensic document examiner and deemed 100% that the unknown compared to the known signatures were forged. My Father had 4 parcels of commercial property she sold and other properties, that have been in my family over 100 years. The damage she caused is at least 3 million. I really need a contingency lawyer to help. I have spent about 100 thousand so far. I have the case number an perfect file documents. Thank you
Hi! I was named as executor and beneficiary on a will. The will is written: Beneficiary: with my name after it. ( no other ) It mentions that I should pay someone $2000. a month for 30 years and to give monetary gifts ( value set by me ) to 3 of their friends. Their mother father, sister, brother are all diseased with no children for any of them. In summary, She wasn’t married, no parents, no children, no brother or sister, The probate Judge says the deceased had a lot of money so why didn’t she have a lawyer write the will? She asked for the will the night before going into heart surgery w/o time to hire an attorney. The probate Judge seems interested in finding lost relatives from her deceased parents.. Is this just the desire of the Judge ? As the listed sole beneficiary, why are they requesting to find distant relatives? I realize that giving $2000. a month to their friend and gifting their other friends a monetary amount makes them a beneficiary but it seems clear ( to me ) that I’m the beneficiary of the balance of assets and that was her sole intention as verified by affidavits signed by the others mentioned in the will. The notary from another county was a Judges legal assistant and the friend of the deceased. I was the deceased significant other for 14 years. My question would be, what process can I initiate to prevent the Judge from giving away the money intended for me to distant relatives? Thank You!
What State are you in every state has different laws & judges & attornys who I am finding to be very corrupt Guardians are a t error
I have a sister who while my mom was alive sold the house that my sister and I was supposed to get to her son. And also sold the stocks and bonds that I was supposed to get before mom died and said she needed the money to take care of mom for the last 4yrs that she lived. I just found out but I don’t think that is right because mine is the only part of the will that was sold
my just died my had left us a briefcase and my old brother was in charge i lived in the home with my mother with son are personall stuff was in the home my brother help me get some of the stuff out than tells me will finish tommrrow than call me a half hour later and said the house is cleaned out i was like what bout my stuff he said what stuff thay had a fernnal yesterday and didnt even tell me
I need help, family has stolen lots n lots of money, property, oil wells deeds, forged my name, pays ppl to try n destroy me in every way to get me outta the way of the money, im only heir…… its sick! please help me
Yeh when your family has land n property n money there will be big crime network out to destroy you n be able to steal every thing
My brother died before he made a will a property was left the other family members sign off on the property I did not and he is comment I fraud by signing off my name
Hello,
I have a sister. My father passed away this November. My mother along with my mother is cheating on me. They are hiding several documents from me. Also, I have proof against them. Neither my mother has evicted me from the property nor she has told me the truth about my sister . Therefore I too have an equal share in the property. What should I do ?
My youngest child’s father died unexpectedly.
She was of age and only child.
The sister of her father decided to forge documents and have him cremated and his belongings sold or given away.
What, if anything can be done?
Greed; a horrible thing
My younger brother and his wife living with my mom,originally the house belonged to my dad,when he passed on without a will my mom put the house in her name,my younger brother then went and put the house in him and his wife’s name without consulting the other six siblings,question is can the other siblings challenge the legitimacy of the new title deeds naming him and his wife as owners
My aunts house Had been abandoned for two years after death , no will, I went to Florida to say my goodbyes while she was dying at the nursing home, any way, 2 years later a purple leaf properties called and said they wanted to buy my aunts house for 60,000, then it went down to 40,000 and he said my mom who is incapacitated we get 15,000 and my mothers brother will get another 15,000 then the property manager called me again and told me that he wanted the key to my aunts house so I sent it to him then he drop the price down for me $2000 and then he had the guardian for my mom take the money and put it in a trust fund for 15,000 uncle got his money a month later 15,000 for signing some type of probate paper for the courts I didn’t get any money yet but I got mad and told him that the lawyer called and said that they could take the money from the house and split it between all the heirs that me and my brother would get half and half because my mom is incapacitated. And all my siblings who Our deceased their children would get money from their settlement now my uncle says that the property Purple Leaf property will not give me any money at all on the knees he found me I was on the death certificate because I had my aunt cremated because she didn’t have a will or life insurance I had to state cremator and then had paid to have the ashes mailed to me Virginia, what can I do???
Im a adopted adult but as a child a special needs youth adopted 3 times and growing up my adopted mother told me every year about her will and to whom it was to go to upon her death.But when my mother was in her 80s my 2 nieces got together and basically tricked my mom into moving off her estate to nieces house (address unknown to me and my 2 little adopted sisters until mom had passed away at nieces house ,then they called and give me their address) and then niece brought in a new attorney not our family attorney and created a trust disinheriting us adopted kids of over being with the adopted family of over 33 years.I was looking for a attorney foe 12 years and was told by over 20 attorneys who said they could not help me but last year I finally found a lawyer who believed in me and took my case.Thank god I might get some well deserved justice on this matter.Ive put my personal life on hold concerning this matter for 12 years and if anyone ever reads what I just wrote I say to you do not ever give up,ever.Thank you for letting me share my story.
I have a VERY wealthy elderly aunt in another state. All her siblings, parents, and in-laws have past away. She has no children and no will. There are 2 neices and 2 nephews. We are brother’s/sister’s and we live throughout the United States. We have not assisted her as she has aged but we remained close loving relatives through phone calls and visits when we were in town. Our cousins still live near by. They do assist here with pick ups for holidays and doctor appointment transportation…etc. SHE past out a few months ago and laid on the floor for days. She was transported to a hospital where she was for weeks and now is in a nursing home. Our cousins got her to sign papers to set up a trust of her money so they can pay her bills while she is in there and after she comes home. None of them called us to make her aware she was in the hospital or a nursing home. It leaked to another relative when they reported that they deserved her money and weren’t calling us until all was set up. They still have not called. They are as old as she is. They are stealing it and it will be left to their kids…my aunts second cousins, Crappy people. Who do I call?
I need a attorney My fathers estate was taken by his girlfriend she told whoom ever that my Father had no one when I’m his legal daughter
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My cousin is the trustee over my grandfather’s inheritance fund I believe he has been harassing me for more than 3 years now in hopes that I kill myself so that the funds will be deemed back to him and his family what do I do and who do I contact
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I have a question. Is it against the law to lie about being the sole survivor of a parent, when there are 4 other living children??? If so, what are the statute of limitations on that law?? I just looked up my mothers obituary bc I didn’t remember the actual day & date of her service. It’s the first time I’ve seen her obituary & now I know why. Because,my youngest brother is listed as the only living child, when in fact there are “5” of US!! I’m royally Pi**** O**!!! This past April has been 3 years since my mothers passing. But I had no idea that this happened. I’m not a blood sucker, so I didn’t notice or hear anything out of the ordinary, unless I just didn’t take notice bc I was grieving at the time. But if anyone can answer this question for me, please, pretty please, can you fix me a way to get hold of me???? I’ll let myself be known,
Hi i have a question my husband passed away in july 30th of this year 2020 we have been together for atlease 20 years or so as a surivrship partners pluse here come a lady claiming that she was his sister not by blood kind or anything only base on what she has told him one day by talking to him. Never done a dna test or anything she never came and seen him at all while his was liven nor called him the day my husband died she came over and said to me she dont know if they r blood kind or not. No will my question is how did she go behind my back and taken everything from me that i am the soul survier ship i stook by him with Five surgurays and never lefted him until the day he died i was still with him this lady is telling everyone to leave that she ownes everything now she took his ld when i went to the bathroom and took his bank statements and ss number aswell and now shes over everything know nobody told her she could get none of his things r they anything that could be done to stop her before its to late
My friends for over 40 yrs just found out that her dads will was just changed by her stepbrother. when her Mom and Dad made a will up, the agreement was that she would get the house when both passed away. Her Mom passed so she became 1/2 the owner. Now the older stepbrother came into the picture and had her dad change the will and making him the executive and owner of the house. He is now on all of his bank accounts, took his car, saying he is incompetent. She found out that the will was just changed in June or July of 2020. she also found out that he is taking money from her dad and spending it on him. He did this without telling her. Can he do this
Hi I have a question- My grandson is only 20 and his father passed recently and left his life insurance to my grandson. The father’s mother ( my grandsons grandma) was shocked when she found out that life insurance was left to him instead of her. My grandson was really distraught about his dad’s passing in mid August 2020. She flew him to Oregon and then she pretty much made arrangements for his celebration of life and told my grandson it was $10,000 dollars. Of course he never called his mom or us (his other grandparents). He was in shock and very upset over his dad’s passing. He never asked for receipts and took her at word. We just found out he was cremated at $895.00 and she asked for 5 death certificates so that same up around $1,000.00 the celebration of life was held at his Uncle’s home and all she paid for was food be catered from Olive Garden, some pictures, and a video. All flowers were donated from people. His dad’s ashes are in plastic bag and my grandson needs to buy the urn since he is keeping the ashes. She would not let him send his insurance check to us in Utah. She made him send it to her house because she wanted make sure she received her money. On top of that he said during his time of despair and overcome with emotions he would give her additional $15,000. So when check came she flew him up there and cost was $300.00 plus he owed her around $450.00 to $500.00 for his first flight there. When he got there he wanted to pay her less and she would not allow him to change it from $25,000 and took him straight to bank and had him write out the check. This happened on 10/03/2020. I tried to stop the check on 10/07/2020 with him but it cleared already. She took advantage of him and lied about cost of funeral. Also, why would she need 5 death certificates and I know from doing my parents you need to provide these to financial institutions usually. Sometimes maybe a bill. She never even gave him one. Plus while he was there she was on phone with Wells Fargo concerning his dad’s account and he heard them ask about next of kin and she lied and said she was only next of kin. Then her husband and her told him he might need to sign an affidavite. I told him not to sign anything and get hold of Well Fargo bank and let them know he is the next of kin. His dad only had him there in no other siblings or wife. What type of lawyer would we need to try and at least recoup some $10,000 that she told him was cost of his dad’s celebration of life? I am not sure if he can get $15,000 back but she did take advantage of him under distress. I know she couldn’t produce $10,000 in receipts. Plus the uncle willing came forward and donated his house to be used.
my father and my uncle are sharing a large sum of money from property left to them in a will that has now been sold. they are to receive a 50/50 share. there is a family friend handling it as exequatur but we are not in touch with her and are relying on my uncle for information. my uncle today asked for my fathers bank details and told him their share is to be paid in instalments. Can this be so? it seems very strange. is it possible that all the money would go to my uncle in good faith that he would pass my father’s share on? or would the solicitor insist on sending my father’s share directly? if so, what is this ‘instalments’ all about? i fear that my uncle is up to something.
it has been two years my aunt is the executor but will not return my calls or show me the will. everything at my dads house she took. i need help on were do i start. and im his daughter shes his sister no more people in this but me and her i live in louisiana she lives in texas her whole life. we maybe meet for 15 minutes and thats because she was passing threw from vacation. PLEASE HELP ME. were do i start to get wats rightfully mine.
My mother has been caretaking over her significant other now for 7 years no they’re not married my mother did everything by the book caring and taking care of all his needs bathing him everything right by caring for not her husband not my dad but was everything like a dad. He passed September 18th 2020- still not in the ground yet family member comes over takes away the washer and dryer says she has two weeks to move out my mother was promised to pick a vehicle out of the three right along with a payment settlement. I fear that neither nor will be given to her but she has cared for him for seven years do I go after and pursue payment for caretaking for 7 years because it’s obvious if they’re already over there taking the washer and dryer my mother will probably never see the money or the vehicle what do I do please any advice would be more than appreciated it just makes me sick to think all that my mother has done and wanted nothing other than what he had promised but now makes me not only want to go after that but the seven years my mother has given taken care of what I thought of as a dad and not to mention my mother is not a well person and has COPD fan of bacteria in her lungs but still put herself aside to care for the man she has cared and loved for 20 years for them to come the second day after passing I’m take the washer and dryer and tell her she had two weeks to get out please help!!!
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My nieces and there police officer husband tricked my elderly mother off her estate by using the next door neighbor which knew the police officer from years earlier and im developmentally disabled an adoptee my mom a former aircraft mechanic and a child advocate ,and after niece and her police officer husband moved mom off her estate ,they my niece brought in another lawyer ,not our family lawyer, and my bedridden mom with a heart condition they had her make up a new revocable trust making niece and her husband main beneficiaries therefore dis-inheriting us 3 adopted kids of 33 years after being with this adopted family . Over the last 12 years over 30 lawyers have refused to take my case and in the last 3 years ive spent my entire life savings of over $6,000.00 and still have not had not 1day in court . My final decree of adoption is vested with the jurisdiction under the Uniform Adoption Act . My dad told me he was a Government worker for 30 years at a Base and a WW2 & Korean war disabled veteran ,and that he was a millionaire because of good investments ,then he passed away . Me and my 2 little sisters did not know where our nieces kept our own other when the will was changed in the remaining last 2 years of our own mothers life. Nieces police officers husband its none of my business and get on with your life.
My second posting . Oklahoma does not provide legal representation for disabled people at all,for 13; yrs I’ve been trying to get legal help to no prevail. My parents entire life savings ,and there property ,house ,everything was taken from me and when you do come up with the money paid OKC attorneys will straight up sell you out. OKC attorneys are hand in hand with all the OKC police there a bunch of crooks every one of them.
If a person dies and has money in stock bond municipalities and family members are fighting guess who steals the estate.The probate lawyer and stockbroker!!Nothing you can do except hire a very expensive forensic financial investigator for proof,time passes n guess what you’re ……
My spouse has been hijacked and taken to a new state by his nephew and son from another marriage. My husband wanted me handling his affairs but these two have cut off all communication from us and his location. He’s beginning to have memory problems and on dyalysis. How can I get his personal and medical records papers as his legal wife?
Black widow case. No autopsy on my great-grandmother….who I am more than 90% sure was murdered by uncle’s wife…uncle was executor, they lived with my grandmother. Spoke badly of my grandmother and we’re waiting for her to die I heard them both say ….then everything they threatened happened. 3 years later my uncle died at age 55. Without splitting….did I mention they changed my grandma’s will 2 or 3 times.i think she killed my uncle as well….no autopsy. She didn’t even stick around for the burial. She saw us at the funeral and went to guard the house from us entering….. Now my mother was the only child left and was named my grandfather’s executor, …the actual person who should have received half of great grandmother’s estate. And oil rights and deeds . And because my mom doesn’t live close by my uncle’s ex still living in the house my grandmother owned still getting checks from the oil in my grandfather’s name…how would she be able to cash it….they are all named the same great grand dad being sr, then grandpa is jr, and my uncle was the 3rd. And my grandpa was in a nursing home prior to his death last year. And all of a sudden when I look up my family, it is all messed up,and items referring to my uncle now say jr….items referring to my grandfather say Sr or the 3rd and I’ve been following for a while and it seems she using my uncle’s name claiming everything as widow and just claiming typo’s for the mismatch of names and it seems like their is fraud and so much more devious manipulations taking place ….and I’m the only witness on how things actually we’re , how can I bring this Black widow down and get my mother the inheritance that was hers….she didn’t even get her trust ….I thought that was untouchable. Any advice.
Signed,
Sick of watching evil win.
Family members are not the only ones that cause problems for beneficiaries. Professional fiduciaries and lawyers create many loop holes in which they can easily overcharge for care. Also, professional fiduciaries tend to want to isolate family from their parents in order to have more power and control over the situation. The more you complain, the more they will try and get you out of your loved ones life. Also, they are very good at hiding money so it is good to get a separate accountant that is not involved with the fiduciary. They will claim the fiduciary association promises to keep them in line, but when you complain to the association they do nothing. I wish my parents would have taken the advice above regarding having more than one person on the trust as far as being the executor and POA of medical and financial. My family made the mistake of putting one professional fiduciary in charge of everything and there are no checks and balances. I cannot even call the doctor to find out how my family member is doing or get rid of caregivers that I think are inappropriate and uncaring. Always see two lawyer s when setting up a trust. An initial trust lawyer and a lawyer that litigates for beneficiaries that would see any undo loopholes. I had no idea that such narcissistic evil people existed until my dealings with this professional fiduciary.
In the absence of a Will, would I not automatically be entitled to my proportionate share of my parent’s estate?
I have siblings and a parent, from whom I am estranged. The parent is now dying. The parent lives in a foreign country, where only one sibling resides. That last mentioned sibling will settle the parent’s estate, because he is the only person in close proximity to her. In the past, the siblings have withheld information from me, including information about family members’ deaths. How do I prevent the sibling handling her estate from merely excluding me from the estate’s disbursements? It is very likely to happen, considering this family’s history. Should I, following the parent’s death, immediately have an attorney enjoin my siblings from spending any estate disbursements, under penalty of law, prior to verification of any Will disinheriting me?
They all want my Money ! Father lamented. He was disoriented came outta hospital Stepmother drove him in his pjs to have his longstanding will changed and entitled herself and added her 3 sibs to the estate. Father had brother and myself and because he was a war child wanted his blood line ensured. After his will was changed he died 1 year later. Meanwhile her and her ilk are emptying his bank accounts and there is nothing us biological children can do.
PS this will be a big problem down the unfortunate road for Governments.
PS ; I wish I had asked Father< WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WITH YOUR MONEY ???
I never asked him for money but her SIBS benefited from him He gave them money while he was alive… Pathetic bunch
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My father past away June 27, 20 and I am his first born daughter. I was not notified of his death till a week ago. My father was a 100% disabled vran , my father said he was saving up for us kids me myself. My 3 brothers for when he pasted. He had a payee for years that save his money …He married and she took over his check right before he passed. I don’t understand why she keep his death from me and my brothers, Then she had him creamaty something he would of never wanted. She didn’t have no services for him and refuses to give us anything of his not nothing…she is smoking crack and drinking all the money she got of his. I am not sure if there wasa will but I know my dad would have wanted us to have money…I am not sure if she got all his savings for his kids. What do I need to do and how can I get what is mine and my brothers.
I need a honest lawyer for my case
My father passed in Nov. of last year and there’s been so much weird stuff goin on. I know my father and he was private with his money. He didn’t even like to tell me about it. He put his trust into financial advisors and I think they took advantage of him because he was getting dementia and he got older. Only thing I could find was his IRA account. I’m having trouble with this and I thought I could have done this myself. I made a mistake not getting lawyer. I need help with this stuff.
I find this information very helpful. I have my late brother s son accused my to have stolen his inheritance from his father. But the correct information is that his step father and his depleted his money.The boy has made to belief real my mother has used his money.And they are try to make sure that boy does not get the correct information. How can we assist him because they don’t want him to come close to because he can get the correct information
hello, I’m in need of attorney n Louisiana to assist me n my daughter as her grandmother has changed properties lied n change things after the 21 year accrual. Strange situation but NEED HELP BEFORE MY YEAR UP. EMAIL N I RESPOND IMMEDIATELY. NEED STARTED BEFORE AUGUST END
My mother each time someone died asked for my ss# telling me she was needing for bonds she buys my boys each birthday come to find out all a lie . My oldest brother told me I had been left money by both and one was a life insurance policy I confirmed this by asking her she at first lied then told her who told me and she said yes but you owed it to me for raising you!!!??? What can I do
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No one can string two intelligent words together in these comments so it extremely difficult not to imagine crazy ranting in these comments. Sorry!!!
I was defrauded by family and District Attorney and the judge of my probate will it was w25000 acres and 875 oil wells
I need a lawyer big time .they pay off any lawyer i try to get!#
Folks…this is rampant. I know an upstanding highly respected not by me!! Person in my city elected city official trusted by many never work a day in his life..i always wondered how he made a living n had so much money. He was is financial advisor. A wolf in sheeps clothing. I findout he been and being sued by multiple families because they claim he stole millions yes millions…from aparent trust that should be for family. I research. He claims parent want him to have and not the family. So he just doing what hisfriend and client wants. Scum bags of tbe highest degree. Lifes savings meant for generations. Stolen by lazy greedy demon. Money is root of all evil. Dont trust anyone. Live or dead. Best you can do. Spend it. Cant give to charity. Really? They same thing worse in gods name. Have friendn famuly n trusted attorney all fully know you n your wishes. Rip
Well it wasn’t my mom but my grandma and my aunt. Her name Maria and their baby sister Carmen are doing the same my aunt went as far as to have someone taking care of grandma while she get paid from the county when she never cared for her only take her to her appointments and even at that if she didn’t hurry she’d leave her now she has sold the house that grandma left us some how when we were left in the dark about it all
Inherited from a ……family trust with 2 siblings, generation skipping my dad who still lives. They did not want him left out and expected us to care for him, allowing him control of family homestead. My sister moved in to home and was single. She later married and filed homestead in new husbands name. The husband now has filed charges against me for tressspassing and burglary of habitation because he claims he owns our land and home. What can i do because i went to jail and it cost me 3,800 to get out and i still have the charges and federal burgulary charges. It was holidays and they were out of town. Its my house and i went there and started putting his stuff out by curb. How does he have more rights than i do?
I have a friend who is 67 yrs old, as a child her grandparents formed a family corp. And she was named in its formation as a shareholder with 80 shares. When her grandparents passed away, her father and uncle assumed the rolls of the grand parents. She was not raised by her father she was instead put in foster care. Her father remarried, his new wife had children already and together her father and the new wife had a daughter. My friend was never accepted by the family, always pushed aside. Approx. 15 years ago she was permitted to move onto property owned by the corp. Into a house there. All of fathers family(now ex wife and her adult children and their own families also live on corp property.) Now her father has passed the corp down to the daughter from his 2nd marriage and that daughter is doing all she can to take my friends home from her and stick her away into a convalescent home and take her share of the corp. to share with her sisters and keep for herself. They have never given her anything except a spot on property that has been in the family(her grandparents) long before the corp was formed. They are currently trying to give her home to other people while she is in hospital from a bad side effect from medication she takes. They were even giving her personal possessions to those people with the home so she would have no where to live when she was released from hospital, even telling her it’s a care provider that she had no job to come home to. So they have excuse for why they are putting her away. Help her please
Aunt Maylee pass on February 5at 253pm. She was married for 53 years,her husband pass 4 years ago and his caretaker claims she doing what aunt maylee told her in her will. She is on dead certificate as adopted granddaughter and Bank statement, they leave no children at all. I waiting for the court to open, also she been cremated not buried so what else can be done.
Hello,
I had inherited a substantial amount of money and property. I am severely disabled, living in the street. Other people got a hold of my documents for settlements and inheritance and go find me money. It seems they are using it for themselves and refusing to give me money to get out of an area that is holding us in a hostage situation. I am only asking for some money right now to get myself a vehicle to get to work because I was made to lose it. And need money to get to doctor appointments. Myself and many other family members who I offered to help have been left homeless fending for ourselves with very little help. To try and teach us severally disabled a lesson. I can hardly walk from a hospitals medical malpractice and left struggling in the street to be harmed and taught a lesson. As well as others. We need help here all over. Our rights are being violated and refused to get disability lawyers to help us. Please let me know what we can do. Thank you.
Hi Sherry – We’re sorry to hear of your situation. A good place to start may be contacting a legal professional. Good luck.
Hi, my older sister is dealing with the money from my mums will after my stepdad dies, I am concerned that she will claim there isn’t enough money to go around and also it does apparently state in the will that my niece whom I am guardian to – her money is to go into a joint trust fund that she will share with her mum and that our cousin’s with be taking over this! Can I ask my sister to put it into a the bank I have set up for my 14 year old autistic niece? Would I need to do that through the court? I really don’t have the money to financially go to court or get a solicitor over this unfortunately :(( my step dad said “if you are mean to you’re older sister in anyway just remember who is dealing with the money after I’m gone” now I’ve never been mean to my older sister I just want to see what the will actually states as I’ve yet to see it, also they left me and my twin out of being involved in our mums funeral – we were just people showing up and sitting there :(( while my older sister stood up with her children to sing (although she was a daddy’s girl) so me and my twin who is the mum of my niece feel we don’t have a say at all in the will and also are it seems being kept in the dark to what we actually come into :(( and of course if we actually also get the full amount, my niece should get 30 thousand, me and my twin each apparently will get one hundred thousand each, but sadly I don’t think we’re going to see that amount :((
Alice – We’re sorry to hear of your situation. A good place to start may be contacting a legal professional. Good luck.
Many years ago, my uncle passed away. He inherited a great deal of property and money from my grandparents and great grandparents. He did not have any children. My uncle was a lot older than my father but they were very close. They went on all kinds of excursions and hunting trips. It was well known that my uncle wanted my father’s kids to inherit what he had. My uncle died suddenly and without a will. My father died unexpectedly exactly six months after my uncle passed away. Upon my uncle’s death, he had several business, business partners and heavily invested in different things. When my uncle died, some of the business partners stepped in to assist his wife, my aunt. At the time, I was really young and had no idea what was going on. My mother and siblings had a lot going on with the loss of our father barely managing our funds and lives. My aunt was devastated with the loss of her husband and our uncle. She was never a very social person and she became more withdrawn after his death. We would check on her regularly and take her food and groceries and anything she needed or asked for. She did her best to continue my uncle’s business affairs but there was a lot to oversee and she wanted/needed to scale back her responsibilities. The business partners were helping her with the real estate and investments. The business partners are very savvy. They have created several very large successful businesses. In 1993, a trust was created that named her nephew and nieces as the beneficiaries and her will did as well. In 2003, my aunt contacted me and asked me to come and see her. She stated that she wanted me to help with managing the business affairs. She repeated that our uncle wanted us, my siblings and me to continue the legacy. However, at the time several things had transpired. Before this, I would go by and check on her but did not know her family situation. She began to tell me about her brother’s children on the other side of the country and a brother that she had locally. She told me about how successful they were and that they will not be interested in anything that she had. As I began helping her, she began telling me on a more consistent basis that I was going to inherit what she had because she could see that I would be a good steward and manage the property and assets properly by conserving them and helping them to grow. She showed me all parts of the business and her investments as well as the contents to her safety deposit boxes and explained the contents of each one. At the time, I was spending a lot of time with her trying to help her. She began giving me money. She became angry if I did not take it. I told her repeatedly that I was not helping her to take money. She informed me again that she does not have anyone else and that she wants to help me get started so that I continue what her and my uncle worked so hard for. Then, she wanted me to get married and start a family. She helped me by giving me money for a down payment on a house. While all of this was happening a few other people were trying to con her out of money and had been successful. The business partners had discovered this in the accountings but had not said anything to me. When I asked my aunt about it she explained to me what happened and that she called the authorities. The authorities investigated the people conning my aunt but no charges were filed. Then, one of the people that conned my aunt accused me of taking money from her. When I was called in by the investigator, I explained what was going on and that I was only helping her. To prove my innocence, I returned 100% of the money that she had given me and walked away. During the whole situation, the business partner that was managing the assets or her family on the other side of the country have not made any attempts to contact me or my family. My aunt and I discussed what her wishes were. She knew that she had to use various trust funds to avoid probate and an inheritance tax when when she passed.
At this point, I have found out that the trust that was established in 1993, was terminated shortly after her death in 2011. An LLC was established and the house has a long term lease on it. I do not know about the status of the investments, or the status of my uncle’s or great grandfather’s business ventures or investments. I do not know if another trust was established or another business for my benefit was created. If so, it has not been communicated with me. Personally, I do not think that it has. I recently spoke with the original business partners of my uncle, they are in their 90’s and told me that I need to contact the probate office, the nephew on the other side of the country and that their son is dealing with the business partnership. Is it weird, if the intent was to have me involved that they would make an effort to to contact me. To me, it looks like if they wanted to carry out the family wishes that they would make an effort to contact me or my remaining siblings? To my knowledge, that has not happened. I am the person to give anyone the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise. I have been overly patient and passive in this situation and it is starting to affect me psychologically. I need to find closure and see is what my aunt and others have told me will come to pass or not. Please advise
WARNING to everyone ……..NEVER HAVE AN ESTATE TRUST DRAWN UP WITH CO TRUSEES!!
My father in-law’s estate worth over 1 mil was in a trust drawn up by his wife’s attorney. His intention was to let her life in the home he owned solely in his name when that got married and then after her death his son’s were the beneficiaries. He thought the attorney was acting impartially. He died in Feb and she was the lone trustee of the trust. A week after his death she transferred the home into her name and TOD to he own son at her death. She took , stole all of his son’s inheritance and gave it to her own son . Her son is a 60 year old man who owns his own home in FLA and a condo in Ohio. She was a woman who lived most of her life in very poor conditions according to her. Her 1st husband divorced her. Her second husband died at 54 2 months after buying a home and 1 year after buying a business …..no will so she got everything. She put it all in her son’s name prior to marring my father in law, A month before my father in law’s death he realized that the trust gave her too much power and he attempted to change it but her attorney wrote it in a way that she could not be removed with out her agreeing. OF course she refused and now she has everything he ever bought, earned or worked for and she never contributed a penny to, all for her own son (who my father in law stated in the trust was to get nothing of the estate, not one penny)while his own sons who worked beside him for years in his business get nothing. PLEASE PEOPLE A TRUST IS WORTHLESS IN THIS WORLD AND you are better off dying with out a will or a trust in my opinion. At least that way your actual family members will get a portion of your assets and not someone else’s family.
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My two siblings and I are adopted. Our father was really ill and before he passed he explicitly told me what to expect from my grandparents will (his parents). His dad, my grandpa passed away a couple of years before my dad did so it is just my elderly grandma. Her daughter (my aunt) is a trustee I believe. My aunt is not to be trusted because she is reactive. I am wondering how I can protect what my dad would have inherited for me and my family? Do I get a lawyer?
I am heir to a house that my dad left for his children. One of my sister and her husband have decided to pay the property taxes, do some remodeling and move into the place. What can I do to stop them from taking possession of the property?
I’m inquiring about stepmother rights to grandparents estate? I’m an only child and only grandchild. My stepmother is salivating at the mouth since my papa died, she’s been praying for his death for 30 years. I’ve heard all kinds of plotting and planning to take out my grandparents who they had a mostly estranged relationship with. My father hurt me very bad when I was young. I turned to my stepmother for help and I was scolded and threatened in return and have been ever since. She is taking extreme advantage of my granny and me. I have a learning disability and I’m at an emotional disadvantage. I’m terrified of confrontation is why I haven’t tried for help sooner. Is there legal help or advice for when the elderly and disabled are being robbed financially by Intimidation and manipulation? Please let me know when available. Thank you, Jennifer.
Wow! I thought I was alone in the severity of this kind of theft and manipulation of the elderly as it pertains to their last wishes and living trust agreements. Anyway, I was an only living relative of an Aunt & Uncles living trust agreement, them living in Oklahoma and me in California. Long story short, there was no other persons to handle their funded trust except a vengeful niece believing as Patsy Fey Baker that they are controlled by god, stole hundreds of thousands of dollars through fraud and lies and eventual death of my aunt and uncle, stealing the money placed in a trust as trustees. No oversight ever done. It’s a shame and I have vowed to see to their original wishes if it takes me entire life. I just wanted to say here that it is so very sad that these kinds of atrocities are allowed to happen with no accountability.
The scenario!..
I am pretty sure.. the lawyer said …..with one of the family of our passed brother… the brother that passed on had no children!… and there was nothing on internet, no record even from his military records or his doctor, but when he passed on from sickness… one day a child older age…all of as sudden appeared. No warning, no birth record!…. nothing! The other family of passed on brother all looked me with this odd smiley look…
I did not even know until the funeral one said meet “your brothers… son! they said they get all the money and everything else and I am invited to the funeral…and I am a blood sister! now they never talk to me ever hardly!
what I heard is there was a lot of really good stuff and it all disappeared even all the accounts and other stuff worth big cash…, cars vehicles, homes and rental of other homes he told me about.. and the same thing happen with my parents..they gave me junk. Told me to help with rummage sale ..when I got there.. they said who called t you to help go back home! Everything all disappeared and I got to go to the funeral… got some of mom’s life insurance from work. her work place sent… is all I saw and both parents funeral! but that was …years ago… and I still don’t get no answer, mostly ignored!!! so I can’t even say if this is what you mean… but I feel I was ripped off couldn’t even take days off because of my job and they were so far away anyway… ..but that’s were they hid everything from me!They were supposed to divide stuff, but that never happened either! My lawyer gave up…. said good luck and that was that!!!
Question:
What do they have about laws with unknown children of passed on family.. who all of a sudden appear upon a death in the family after they said they had no children? are there any laws about
Inheritance law!
“birth certificates signed by doctor and parents for proof of being passed on families, brother’s or sister’s children?…whom ever? so other don’t get left out of inheritance from fake child!
Have been researching these same questions and have discovered how many of these estate companies have corrupt or questionable people involved in their companies.
The pain of loosing someone is difficult enough without those things in the interim.
Research these companies carefully in searching to settle your future wishes.
How do i get back my grandmothers estate back from the family
My mother passed 2 yrs ago. She is survived by 8 children(my siblings). When her will was read it left almost 80 % to one sibling. The remaining siblings all agreed some manipulation took place in the last year my mother was alive.
Here is where things get difficult. 3 siblings filed suit challenging the will and against the 1 sibling who received 80%. The remaining 4 siblings agreed with the suit but did not sign on. The case eventually made it to mediation. The 4 siblings who didn’t sign on were invited and told they should be there to protect their interest. However, their input was never asked for and they were not part of settlement discussions. A settlement was made dividing the 80% amongst the 3 siblings who filed and the original sibling.
What are the rights of the remaining 4 siblings. Did we have a right to be heard? Do we have to sign off on the agreement for it to be final? Do we have any recourse to correct this settlement so the 80% is divided 8 ways.
My dad past 9 years ago and new mexico has a law were the kids split everything in half.so there was no will and my brother and i agree d to let him be in charge..now he wont give me my inheritance my dad had everything paid off with no bills.so my brother wont talk to me and he’s collecting rent from the tenants .he already took the mustang and all the tools .I cant afford Attorney cause my son has disability
Yes to the people who advised not giving one person all the power in your will because you have just placed that person in the position of doing things with your money that you likely did not foresee (unless you intended for one of your children to steal the majority of your money to build themselves a little empire, and pay their friends handsomely, and assign to themselves the property you intended to be split equally, and intentionally divide the family, and pay their corrupt elder law attorney many tens of thousands out of the estate money, and–this is important–remember YOU with bitter disappointment because what you arranged to give to your beneficiaries was your last statement and act of love to them, so don’t screw it up and be overly trusting OR, even worse, deliberately punish the children you think did not love or obey you most…sometimes the “love” you are given by one child in your later years is simply an act with dollar signs flashing within their greedy brain. Truth is, if a corrupt executor/power of attorney/trustee/personal representative hires a corrupt elder law attorney, they can legally squeeze every last cent out of the intended inheritance and get away with leaving nothing for anyone else. In Pennsylvania, they are big on what they call “indemnity” or “hold harmless” agreements. The executor and his/her attorney then refuse to distribute whatever money remains after their appalling premeditated acts of theft unless every intended beneficiary signs this agreement that, in our case, says that all the corrupt actions of the executor were satisfactory and proper, and that if there were any errors in the accounting (of which they have refused to provide, and which would be too expensive to fight for since the inheritance was under a million to begin with), we promise to pay back up to every penny we inherited. I never thought about inheritance, and I never felt that money was more important than relationships, but we now no longer speak, and probably never will again, and I find this situation has left me fantasizing of murder in gory detail. Never dreamed this would happen in our super religious family.
Estate with a Will where everything is spelled out for distribution; two sisters have to agree on who gets whatever items left in the home of their recently deceased parents, however one of the sisters has taken it upon herself to tell family members to come and get certain items without the others sisters consent. Example- Grand kids gathered recently at home to collect items they were left by way of a drawing numbers out of a hat but while looking at these items it was noted to be a few things missing from this particular list and of course no one would admit to who took these things originally but the truth did come out on a few items but not sure what can be done legally to retrieve these items.
Uncle spread lies about my family to caregiver and dad saying we were greedy. My dad trusted home and promised life ins. policy to disabled grand-daughter. Uncle had disabled dad refinance house so original trust no good anymore. He and caregiver then demanded power of attorney said was for emergency medical since dad in hospital. After this, no calls as promised, was cussed out by caregiver, uncle not responding and found out about 24 hrs after dad’s death, he used power of attorney to put bank accounts beneficiary and trusted home in his name, etc.. Said he and other uncle took everything of dads already…did not bother asking if I even wanted one picture or anything. Don’t expect anything, but uncle is already very wealthy. He is great con artist. Wonder if caregiver and other uncle know what he did.
I am the co trustee of Mom’s trust. She is still alive but brother who is the other trustee has been going to her home taking items without telling anyone. Is it possible to for me to give my powers of trustee and POA to a lawyer. Or another authority figure. I want to avoid the issues seen in this blog. My brother made sure that the trust reads a trustee may act alone. I tried to get Mom to have both trustees have to sign check and agree with movement of assets. I want everything done on the up and up.
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My sister had poa over my mom. She sold mom’s house and put all the money from the house sale into her son’s bank account does she have the right to do that? And I was told her and my other sister split the money so sad.
All of this is all so BANAL and so expected. When money is the motivator, people will do ANYTHING…evil and manipulative…to gain their goal. It’s a HUGE human failing & people will sacrifice their children, siblings, other relationships/whole family dynamics forever and ever……to catch their “brass ring,” even if it’s only a couple thousand or a few $10,000’snds of dollars (which, BTW…will be gone in months or a year or two, no matter). This happened in my birth family, where I was left to pick up the pieces, bury my parents, after my siblings robbed them in life and death of their assets, and didn’t even contribute to their last dispositions, but I did. And now, it is happening again in my husband’s family, almost the exact same way….
I am a very close friend to a heir theft. I would like to know if there is anything that I can do to help my friend who has lost his father 2014 lost his mother in a car accident 1972 in Alaska leaving behind 4 boys on a airforce base with there father whom was on TDY twice. all four boys received death benefits from social security for there life up until 18. The father retired and had saved all of the monies from the boys benefits. The Father bought property and built a home here in the northwest. promising that they would all be part owners of this estate after he passed. The boys moved out and the father married a woman with a child of her own. sold the home and purchased a new home. The father had written a will and had showed it to the oldest boy .when he passed 2014 no will was brought to any ones attention. this last 5 years that the step mom remained in the home had the oldest boy take care of all her needs. they had made him a beneficiary of two annuities The last check of the State of Washington retiring systems as sole beneficiary was received and given to my friend as he was and is a beneficiary. the step mom had written a will that only stated her daughter as a heir, leaving everything to he daughter. before she passed . as he was caring for her, she requested for her daughter. while caring for his step mom in the presence of witnesses she stated she would like her daughter to honor to her wishes and to split everything down the middle. The daughter had only a copy of the will and it is now in probate.She has excluded him from anything and stated in the probate that there is no other heirs. He is still residing in the home as this is where he has lived for over ten years. He was just served eviction papers to move she will not return any calls or letters sent . she is trying to get a quick sale on the home and has not honored what her mother had stated. . she has had full control of the bank accounts of over 200,000 and stocks over 1,000,000,00 dollars. my question is does my friend have any legal rights to contest and he has witnesses to speak on his behalf of what her wishes were before she passed. or is the step child going to rob the family of what is rightfully theirs.. and is there a time to contest this probate started on April 8TH 2019 Desperately seeking truth and justice for all concerned . please if you have any suggestions’ it is much appreciated. Terry Olson
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I find the common denominator above is the word “Sister” I too have a sister who claims we are out of money after spending thousands on fixing up our family home. Thankfully my Dad had the foresight to make me executor and named on all of his financial accounts. I went down to the bank after she said we were broke and we have to keep dropping the price of the home. There was $20,000. still in my Dads Mutual Fund account. I dont know what she planned to do with this, the situation is now unfolding, but I have to confront her in front of my family and expose her dishonesty before the house is sold and we settle up with her share of the home. There were a number of cash withdrawals from an ATM after all modifications to the home were completed.
My sister had 200k six months before she passed. We find out after she passed she only has 80k and she had gifted someone. Administrator ( Who is the one who may have been gifted) and (our?) Estate lawyer tells us it’s not our business who was gifted! Shady???
My wife & I had a trust in made for us in 2012, saying when one of us passed on the other has control of everything. Since 2018 she has been in a home for memory care. She has 5 children from a previous marriage. At the time the trust was formed 4 of the children were left out of the trust. One was given what we had in the bank after we both passed. Now I would like change that part of trust. Being my wife is in memory care with not being able to make any changes to a trust made in 2012 because of being diagnosed by a Janice Edwards PH. D., Clinical & Forensic Psychology stating my wife has no understanding of financial responsibilities, her medical condition or being unable to make any decisions of a trust made in 2012. She requires a full guardian of both person and estate. My question can her husband be able revise the trust?
My 78 year old Dad has 3 siblings. His parents died 17 years ago. My Dad wanted me to find out if his parents’ property is for sale or had been sold. My Dad and his siblings do not speak. I called the County appraisers office and found out that my Dad’s youngest brother is the executor of the estate. The property is in a pending sale contract and expected to be sold by February 2020. A developer is buying the property for 1.5 million. I also called the Wills Dept of the Courthouse. They will be sending me a copy of my grandparents’ will. My Dad’s brother, the executor, refuses to let him see the will. I wouldn’t be surprised if my grandparents gave their youngest son everything and possibly left their other children nothing. If the will mentions that profits of the property should be divided up among their children, my Dad will be contacting an attorney. I believe my Uncle is trying to hoard the profit for himself, soon to be made, from that property. My Dad and his other siblings all deserve a piece of the pie. I am so angry how my Dad was betrayed by his own sibling.
It is really important how you mentioned that you should appoint many people as executors, trustees, and powers of attorney as a safeguard. I think in general, we do not have enough knowledge about the law to be able to go by without having to hire a lawyer to figure out our estate and will. My husband and I are thinking about this now that we have retired, and these tips will be really useful to find an attorney that will help us make the best choices.
My sister sold the family home in california and claims it was given to her by our mother who is still living but now in her death bed. She brought the money to another country by wire transfer. She is now slowly using up all the money to pay off her debts and her child’s education. Can we as siblings get a part of our share from the sale?
My dear friend left money in a trust for me, so that I would be financially secure, because I have a life long illness. Unfortunately, when she passed her attorney acted as if he knew nothing of the will, and he tried to keep me from attending the funeral, even though was listed on the funeral fund! I was given the run-around, and I don’t know what steps to take because I have no legible proof, the only witness I have are my mother, and the second witness passed a month before Diana passed.
My sister fraudulently claimed for 11 days that she was named the executor of a will that supposedly my mother had left with instructions in a case of her passing. After the eleventh day, I became suspicious because she would only produce a copy of a living will. My sister and I live 2.5 hours away (my sister in the same town as my mom). We are a family of 6 siblings and since my mother’s passing my sister has given away (to friends, family, and even grandchildren), donated, and sold my mother’s belongings and divided the object and monies in a very unfair manner. She has also claimed not to have any knowledge of items that later were produced after her being pressured, others she claims she never found.
I was going to establish probate here in Florida, but then I found out all that was left is a paid-off car that was in my mother’s name (which required my signature in order to sell). Of course, I refused to sign off on it however, I am wondering what legal stance do I have to get my equal share of my inheritance.
My dad was done an incredible mis service by his attorney when he wrote up his will by not informing him of something known a elective share. His will specifically left his hose and property in New York to his 3 kids. He also made us kids executors. He didn’t mention his financially independent wife of 6 years in the will because he had already left her their estate in Florida along with a boat, a truck and making her a co beneficiary with his children on a life insurance policy. Because he didn’t mention her specifically in the will she was able to claim disinheritance and claim an elective share. Through this elective share she was able to live in our dad’s house in New York while denying us access as his kids and executor to the house or any necessary paperwork to carry out our jobs as executors. In the meantime she went ahead and distributed things in the will without our knowledge and cleaned out the entire house and property of anything of value. Under surviving spousal rights our family lost all things of value as well as sentimental items. Legalized theft we call it. Elective share
laws are extremely lopsided and unfair to children of first marriages allowing greedy spouses to overreach into children’s rightful inheritance. My family and I will be fighting for law reform when this is over so others won’t have to go through this. It may be too late for own family, but if we can help others in the future…….
Recently, I was informed a sibling may have stolen my mother’s will. She’s going to get a new one. I’m afraid that if my sibling really stole if that she will try to contest the new one.
My step father is an accountant, he was my mums spouse and her tax accountant, he was just about to divorce my mum, after having affairs on her, she was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2014, she died in 2017, Mum left us her super and left him the estate, he convinced my mum to pay and transfer him everything and all of the super to avoid the Tax pay to the government. Children do have to pay tax when receiving inheritance however a spouse gets its tax free, he manipulated my mum, feuded the tax system and the government of their money, told her to remove us “her 4 children” as beneficiaries and he would take it tax free then divvy it up between the children, but once he got the money after mum died, he had the house doors locked and never spoke to us again, absolutely robbed us and fooled our mother
If I die my husband rightfully will inherit everything since we have no children and I don’t want to leave it to anyone else. My problem – is my husband is too generous with his sister and she has taken advantage of him financially before. What can I do to prevent my husband to be taken advantage by his sister or anyone else for that matter? What do I do to keep that from happening if I pass away. I am inheriting from my father a lot of money and I am the only daughter that will be passed to. And, when I pass away my husband will inherit that money and I know people will try to take advantage of him since he is too generous. Thank you. Patti
When my grandmother died I was named in her Will. My family never told me what or how much she left me. I signed something when I was 17 and in shock from the grief. I never saw the will. Am I entitled to anything years later? How can I view the will?
I’m going through very tough times and they keep bringing it up but only giving me half truths. I just want the whole truth and my grandmothers wishes to be fulfilled.
Hello, we recommend you consult with a legal professional.
My sister died in another state from where I live and I just discovered that people with her same last name is the Administrator and Petitioner. Plus one of them is a attorney. What can I do to REPORT this wrong doing? Who do I report too? Thank you
We’re sorry to hear about the loss of your sister. It sounds like a good place to start may be contacting a lawyer. Thank you for reading.
I was hurt in CA in 2003.
I moved home to MS.
The lady who was in her 70’s at the time had no children, no involved family, did several questionable business dealings. Her family was 3 dogs and she was disabled. She sold her jewelry to a pawn shop and then sold her land because she had money problems.
I figured out something was not right when I asked her where she would be living. “Here.” She lived in a mobile home. Long story short she broke her foot, and she needed help.
I moved her in my home, and moved her mobile home to my land.
She lived next door, and her Alzheimer’s was apparent.
I got a POA, and became her Health POA also. I helped her with her bills and creditors and got her out of debt.
2 women came from the church and over months had her tell me she was moving into one woman’s house so she could keep her dogs.
Home health and her doctor was trying to get her in assisted living.
These ladies got her to agree to pay $800.00 a month, living expenses, tried to get her to sell her mobile home, pull up her deck and fence to make the one woman’s house decked, fenced, and handicapped assessable so she could move in with her and keep her dogs.
They had her changed her address,changes at the bank, she had $$ missing from her acct, and I went to the HCSO filed charges, reported it to the bank and changed her acct and added my name.
She eventually hurt herself and had to move into the nursing home. These women did not not come back because I told them not to.
My friend took out a Ad&d policy and 2 years later she fell. Eventually passed away, away in 4 weeks, after I put her in hospice.
I got her records, filed her insurance papers, paid her debts, and arranged her funeral.
If all her papers her official will, and her Ad&d insurance papers were missing. I had a copy that was not notarized, and she gave a lot of her things away and I got her to initial and date it as she did these things.
So it’s been a year and her ad&d insurance paid “ someone” $150,000.00 dollars.
No one will tell me who, but after all that over 15 years someone took that money.
I’m not finically able to pay a lot of fees, there are things that need to be done and I’m very angry … someone took advantage of her and left me holding the responsibility.
I wish there was real help out there for all of us . My father in law stopped talking to us about 3 years ago . Wouldn’t answer our calls, wouldn’t respond to the texts of his new great grand kids . Nothing. With my health issues we couldn’t stop our lives to drive 12 hrs and go find out why. He got sick in April and his friend knew but didnt call us. We found out from a distant family member on a Friday headed that way and 5 hours before we got there the friend had the oxygen removed.
This friend is Executor and sole reciever of everything in his will. Unless my husband and his brother show interest before he passes, this makes no sense. Not to mention this man had the oxygen removed 5 hrs before we got there.
We honestly believe he neglected to call because of the clause stating show interest may have cost my husband and his brother valuable time to say goodbye and I think he was worried about him maybe pulling through and it invalidating the Will even though my husband and his brother had no knowledge of this Will or that he had received a big chunk of money from the VA in 2014.
These men went to their dad in what they thought were his final hours only to have this man have the oxygen cut off. I am so sick over it and the pain it has caused them both. Finding an attorney willing to help them fight for what little their dad had left ie family photos , old family belonging their grandparents estate etc has been even worse of a dilemma. Every one connected to the Will , the executor , the estate of his grandparents and the donations in the Will of his truck and the dollar horse trailer are to the American Legion. And not one person found it right to call his sons when he went in the hospital.
Thank you for sharing this story, Susan.
My father died going on 10 years ago. He set up a family friend, about 10 years older than me, to be executor of his estate. At the time of his death, the family friend challenged me and wanted me to know that she still had control of the estate- even though none of us had spoken in about 15 years. I was able, eventually, to get control of the estate. (That battle lasted for almost 2 years and ended up in court.) I eventually came to find out several months ago that said family friend’s daughter, now 23, opened up multiple accounts and got loans in my father’s name! Help!!! I have absolutely NO idea what to do or where to start?!!!? Am I liable for this!??
We’re sorry to hear of your situation. It sounds like a good place to start may be contacting a lawyer. Good luck.
My mother passed away just over 10 years ago, yes she made a will, she thought she was protecting mine and her grandchildrens inheritance while also protecting her husband, basically her will left myself and her grandchildren the house saying that her husband could live in it till he dies, she thought it was safe guarding both of us. Now i find he has moved out of the house because he has let it get in a state of disrepair and moved into sheltered accommodation which he told me he only uses as a mailing address as he lives with his girlfriend. He is selling the house and i told him he couldn’t, he told me i thought i was getting nothing but its all mine and there is nothing you can do, i’m so upset. i knew my mother’s wishes she thought her will would stand after her death but no it means nothing so why did they not tell her her will was a waste of time because her husband would get it all? The law is so wrong my mom and dad worked hard and he gets it all because he married my mom. I know she was not advised properly when making her will because no way would she have left it to him. She told me often enough that she had made a will the house was ours and he could not sell it, she even gave me her house keys on her death bed. We were so close i know her wishes have not been fulfiled and the solicitor obviously didn’t advise her properly when she was making her will as any decent solicitor would have told her that everything went to her husband when she passed so she could of made a different will.
Thank you for sharing your experience, Carol.
I agree just as Steven said also. There should be a better law in place because children grown or not are better off if there parents have no will (interstate) that way if they did have a evil new found mate married or not at least the children would get half!! That is my understanding of a interstate will or having no will at all. I was done the same way with my father telling me for decades what he wanted for me to get everything and make sure she got what they acquired together like furniture appliances bedding , but he got cancer and she undue influence manipulated him into changing the will to add her an what he didn’t realize and the crooked attorney never told him that now, the will reads that she gets all furniture etc and then we split the house and truck, I was the executor. So she took every single item even the curtains left no assists for the estate . I had to fight her on a motion that she gives back electronics and tools as they are not household goods. she didn’t and I was slapped with sanctions and had to pay for her entire attorneys bill out of my pocket I might add and I get way less than what my father wanted. Its a tragedy I tell you the good guy gets nothing and hear this my fathers attorney was hired by the woman that took everything and they fought me on everything, an if that wast conflict of interest since he wouldn’t even speak to me to help me with his own clients will!! Ive had to pay around $5000.00 out of pocket for attorneys I cant keep one they get with her attorney and everything gets turned around and they work against me for god sake. My fathers attorney has tried his best to make me look bad and is succeeding. I feel that after she took off with all the assists the will should have been void. Oh yes I forgot to mention at the beginning of this she would harass me leaving dead birds in my parking spot and brought back a box of nails and rusted fishing poles from what she took. Thats is sanctions I do believe. So his daughter and grandson get nothing and the girlfriend and her family get almost everything which includes my great grandmas family heirlooms. I never dreamed this would happen me and her were very close too before he passed away then one week later she stated moving her family into the house I had to save from foreclose due to her not paying one bill. There need to be a revamp of the will procedure or policy this probate and will crap is sicking for the true family members that should get the inheritance of there family members but instead strangers get off with it and they do nothing about it but go after the family with bull!! So yes I understand your pain and I like many of you cant just let it go like they want me too. Inst there someone out there who helps people like us who rightfully get wronged in this will situation!! Im sick of this lawyer stick up for lawyer bull too. You all at not lawyers if you dont uphold the truth simple! there just cons and snakes !! Theres a place for those types too. Good luck family members cause the odds are not in your court! Literary!
I hate seeing so much grief being shared over such a thing. My father always acted under the wishes of his father to setup a way to fulfill our inheritance. My stepmother found a powerful line in a “poorly” written trust. She was a settlor and with that sentence it gave her power to revoke. She revoked and now, we get nothing. Just a costly legal battle to appeal or charge the man who wrote the trust with malpractice. The man is in his 80’s and was a lawyer for my father and grandfather. Sad that this happened. Everyone around says to move on. My grandfather was a WWII hero and he would have flipped if my stepmother got it all. So much for justice in this country. Too easy to steal from children. My father was a victim of poor trust planning. He either didn’t know what he was doing or he didn’t explain what he wanted to us. He totally skipped over the part about telling your grown children about what to expect and what to do. He thought the document would hold up. I didn’t think my stepmother could be so evil. Greed must be the root of my suffering. I didn’t get a keepsake for his ashes or anything. We knew she would be toxic and shifty. Mediation did nothing.
Steven- thank you for sharing your experience.
My family (my husband and my son) is not strong economically. Three months ago my mother-in-law passed away. We know that she had some savings and also another land. Now we have no information about the papers of those assets. How we can get the information? Should we hire an estate planner who can suggest us to get the assets or the information?
I need legal help. My sister has confused my 87 year old mother, who just died, and convinced my Mom to change her Will and remove me from her Will. All monies will go to my sister and her 2 sons. My mom, in my opinion, was Very confused from various medicines, and did Change her Will
Thanks for the great tip that one should find a trustworthy spouse, a close friend, or family member to be a will’s executor. Aside from them, I believe that one should also find a probate attorney to help. Aside from making financial decisions on a person’s behalf, they can help rewrite the will too.
Great input Yoshiko. Thanks!
I have someone whos mother died left millions to her daughter in a trust, her uncle is her trustee he has taken all the money and thru out years have manipulated lied forged and left her unknowing of where anything is because its all gone the money but its not he keeps the money circulating within his business and his sons accounts so when one files for bankruptcy then the money will have already been in another account. her mother died in Santa Clara county shes in ventura county where should she begin to find out if hes still her trustee her uncle said he wasn’t anymore her trustee a couple of years shes not in contact with him and now her taxes have shown up and are due she doesn’t even know what’s on the deed to her condo that he had bought for her even though he totally just tricked her into moving into the place its been 9 yrs since moving in. this is the first time she has received anything in her name to pay so shes not knowing where to begin not only confused with just this. life isn’t perfect so she has trapped herself within the walls of her own mind like the small condo she stays in excluding herself from the world battling with cancer and plus some other health issues. its to overwhelming and before she dies she just wants to untangle the mess with her uncle. she feels betrayed and stripped of what was hers and i feel she has a valid feeling and i wish to help her but omg this is a mess where do i begin, who do i cal? Any help is so appreciated please, thank you .
Sincerely,
M.Taylor
I’m in the exact same situation, my grandparents stole millions from me and it’s been 5 years now they used up all the money , I’m 22 and when I was done with matric i even got accepted in varied colleges they didnt even give me a sent not even my father’s car, they sold that too, my job clothes and other things in life I got all on my own, I want it all back cause they been ill treating and forcing me to move out always so same, I dont know where to start or what to do or even who to call, I’m in south africa
I am surprised that people claiming that they are heirs without legal support can give the will writer a hard time making one’s inheritance. If I were to claim myself as an heir, I would do it in the presence of a respected legal advisor. Not only will this give substantial proof that one is the rightful heir for one’s inheritance but also be able to protect the departed loved one’s wishes.
i need a really good family lawyer. my family who has integrity and is willing to help out someone who is really been done wrong.
I have been railroaded out of my inheritance
davlovett4my brother is stealing all he can and now has burned my house to the ground and has been abusing my mother.
I have nothing now and
I can’t do any thing to stop them.
They have no boundrys and are faulty accessing me of anything and now I may go to prison for nothing. And I will lose my wife and family to.
My mom passed no will i have nothing to do with one sibling the other told me they were burning my mom house.they made my bro in law executor they went thru whole house before burn.then they filed ins clain 2 heirs left me out i told fediciary .he supposed to give copies all monies rec to commissioner he did not.they did nothing to him
Hi I’m so happy to just read about your Mom’s passing am sorry & same thing I’ve been trying to get help getting the run around for less than a year, I’m disabled, on SEC 8 & SSI only get $794 mo. Yo live on. I’m scared my Sister & Husband are so blessed beautiful family, picture perfect home, can eat off their floors, well off no worries ever fir life her husband sued 3 times hospital or Dr’s he was 28 fireman had knee surgery they are manipulative people, care only fir themselves DONT know what it’s like living in a real world her main problems are cleaning or getting Botox, they haven’t spoke to my Dad in 2 Yrs after thry found out I was moving out of his 2 family home in Bronx N.y. They called him I’m having hard difficult time finding a Atty. I can’t afford a paid Atty. My Dad & I were very close even when I had my own apts. Through out the 32 Yrs of me & my Son living with my Mom & Dad they eventually got divorced my Dad was a alcoholic on many prescribed Controlled meds. I’m sorry this is long hoping u can help in any way with any advice. My Dad also did street drugs, was never in sound mind, couldn’t spell, understand reading etc. I have lot of proof best friends he seen daily or cousins spoke to almost daily, My sister & husband left me out of everything I Don’t know where my Dad is, he always loved taking pictures of us out to dinner ir when we went away at events he always worried about me & my Son I have tx from my Sister saying that saying she planned on splitting estate & EVERYTHING WITH ME MY DAD HAD CARTIER BRACELETS/RINGS, approx 5 large cases of expensive jewelry dianthus Mom left him also he was into jewelry, Rolex watches etc. Expensive furniture antique’s gets rent $ from tenant happens to be his brother idk what they convinced my uncle into not getting reciept for tent or paying by check took his phone book, would never let me go in my Dads home locks got changed Bc I had my Dads keys had attic full of expensive stuff my brother in law is insecure had to always have better than any1 I don’t want to keep going on I’m sry it’s a lot to read I didn’t proofread Sry so exhausting I know my Dad always said this goes to me when he passes 1/2 of everything is mine, most importantly asked me 1st to go through a big bag of his paperwork, go to vault & bank to sign somethings I never thought my Sister would hurt me I’m to trusting NOMORE, I always help people I’m a giving person, I’m petrified knowing I can’t survive on the $ I get from SSI it’s scarey living where I am. They don’t care I care for my 75 yr old Mom whose scared to call her other daughter so sad, she asked if she can sleep over their house so she didn’t have to go to a shelter thry said no! Can you please help me since u went through the same thing probate citation
How can a person protect the estate when the girlfriend of 7 months steals $10,000. Cash, plus our Mothers jewelry, antiques, everything that wasn’t nailed down? This woman knew our Dad was dying, and refused us entry in the house, while taking everything she could, and then slanders us on social media! She pulled the plug on his life support, without proper authority, then wouldn’t tell us he passed. We learned via facebook he passed. What do we do? Isn’t there some way to prosecute? Or do we lack evidence?
I am 68 retired no assets just SS. My partner is 62 in good health but we are going to travel. She has inherited money and there are no children or other claimants, just me. In case of the worst and she is disabled or passes away, we don’t want me to lose money on probate or any other thing, I will need the money. How much in legal fees for this one will be reasonable, nobody claiming, just me.
I have a Caregiver in Sheffield Lakes Ohio doing this very thing with the inheritance my father has left.
What to do?
I live in Georgia…
I think my father tricked me into signing documents handing my inheritance from my grandfather to him how could I find out if this is the case?
Shane,
This exact same thing just happen to my grandaughter on 7/19/2021.
With some letter appearing have nowhere since 2003 and nobody being informed of changes. The signatures and dates are questionable.
I’ve been searching days for this scenario.
Has anybody replied have you had any help trying to figure this out. Please let me know. Thank you Julie
My brother hacked my sis and me. Made craigist ads with my name selling his property and commercial property. There is probably much more. My father will not see me and Im sure there is a new Trust without me. Didn’t realize the whole time being duped. I still cannot access my gmail account they used to do this. I fear I will never see my dad again. I reported everything but no one is helping.