Tricky woman steals father's house

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strawman

strawman

There are a number of news sites covering this, but the actual posting is much more interesting reading.

Essentially a woman used her power of attorney to gift herself and her husband her father's house while he was still living in it, without telling him or anyone else in the family. 6 years later, since h isn't dying quickly enough, she attempted to force him into a nursing home so she could sell the house. At this point the rest of the family finds out about the house transfer.

They fight it in court, as there's a law against power of attorney being used to transfer assets to the person who holds the power of attorney, however there is also a 4 year statute of limitations.

So the courts ultimately rule that the house belongs to the daughter, as it wasn't contested for 6 years after it was transferred.

After the courts ruled in her favor she served her father with an eviction notice.

Her daughter (the granddaughter of the man being evicted) isn't happy with this and is running a fundraising campaign to buy back the house, and there are lots of little details (he built this house, and has lived in it for over half a century, is a veteran, etc, etc, etc) but the upshot is this:

Don't give someone power of attorney without some sort of checks and balances to prevent them from stealing your home out from under you.
 
Dave

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What a total bitch. You know, it's amazing how families go apeshit when money and stuff come in to the picture. I've seen people I respected being greedy as fuck, ruining any positive feelings I had about them.
 
CrimsonSoul

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Dave said:
What a total bitch. You know, it's amazing how families go apeshit when money and stuff come in to the picture. I've seen people I respected being greedy as fuck, ruining any positive feelings I had about them.
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I agree. I pray I don't act like a dick if something happens to my parents
 
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This happened to one of my good friends in Lafayette, too. She's one of like 11 kids, and the eldest managed to dick everyone over legally, including the parents. Her justification was that she was the oldest and had to take care of the parents and some of the kids, so therefore, she deserved it all.
 
strawman

strawman

One of my inlaw's relatives did this. Grandma and grandpa sold their home and moved into a very nice assisted living facility, but were then convinced by a daughter to buy a mobile home and a car in the same manufactured home park she lived in, and she would tend to them. Then when they died she assigned herself the home, the car, most of the assets, and distributed things to the other relatives. Like cups and dishes, at leas the ones she herself didn't want. She also split up the remainder of the savings with the lions share going to her.

Rather than fight about it, everyone else held their tongue because it simply wasn't important enough, but she obviously felt that she deserved most of the inheritance for taking care of them for the last few years of their life, even though she paid herself a very handsome salary from their savings account as their home personal aide when taking care of them.

Funny how people swoop in to help the elderly right at the end, otherwise ignoring them up until that point.

My plan, of course, is fool proof. I plan to have no assets when I die, and if I outlive my savings I'll live with each child for two months each year.

What can go wrong?
 
Dave

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Being broke-ass poor has its advantages. Neither of my kids are going to want any of my shit.
 
Frank

Frank

Every family seems to have these stories. My grandma's (my father's mother) younger sister (a lawyer, shockingly) managed to legally steal every part of their family's fortune from my grandma (who died poor in the end). A massive piece of land in Ontario that ended up selling for several million dollars was just the tip of what she took.

My grandma on my mother's side lived with us for years while she battled cancer (this was when I was in junior high). My mom didn't do this for inheritance (my grandma was poor too, my grandfather dying in the early 70's and having 8 kids to raise) but because that's what my mom does, she looks after those in need (she's the oldest of the brood). Her siblings took very little part in the care of my grandma, other than my uncle, who did what he could from as far away as he lived. When my grandma died, my mom's sisters, after taking the lion's share of my grandma's meager heirlooms and possessions, accused my mother of stealing my grandma's money and hiding what she had so they wouldn't get their share. They even pulled some fucking insane claim that my mother and uncle had stolen her ashes.

My mom managed to shield my brothers and I from all of this. We didn't learn about this nonsense until we were much older. I haven't forgiven most of my extended family for this shit and the misery they caused my mom and likely never will (even though she has, because again, that's what my mom does). She's still treated like garbage by the majority of those fucking harpies and it fucking burns me up every time I see it.
 
Officer_Charon

Officer_Charon

It's always depressing when stuff like this happens... my grandfather's wife's kids went nuts after he died, despite my mother being the executrix of his will. His wife held on to a large amount of his property, despite it being deeded to other family members, and upon her death shortly thereafter, her kids set in like a pack of hyenas. My poor mother was cut so far out of the loop I'm surprised she didn't receive scars.

Then they had the unmitigated gall to try and send a bill over repairs to my grandfather's house. Bitches must not know about the Carter temper... they're lucky they're still standing. In all seriousness.

I was tempted to send Mom my thermite and napalm recipes... but she's a nicer person than me.

People do some crazy stupid shit when relatives die, even if there's no inheritance to be had. As it is, we were lucky to retain family heirlooms (Kentucky Long Rifle "Betsie," been in the family at least 3 generations, originally deeded to my uncle, then to me when my uncle was disinherited - I had no qualms giving it to my uncle, as he's a good guy; and what I believe is a Knights of Columbus sword that belonged to a great-great uncle).

They even took all the damned books... even though I doubt their pill-addled asses can read anything longer than a prescription bottle label.
 
TommiR

TommiR

This all makes it intriguing to think how things will be when the time comes and our own elderly family members pass from time to eternity. Regardless of how well we think we know our close family members, and how all of us might have reasonable and well-intentioned characters, it is stories like this that might make me wonder if we, too, will descend into such madness and petty bickering when the actual moment is at hand.
 
strawman

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TommiR said:
This all makes it intriguing to think how things will be when the time comes and our own elderly family members pass from time to eternity. Regardless of how well we think we know our close family members, and how all of us might have reasonable and well-intentioned characters, it is stories like this that might make me wonder if we, too, will descend into such madness and petty bickering when the actual moment is at hand.
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Yep. It's a terrible time because everyone's messed up emotionally. I'd like to think I'd say, "Take what you want if it makes you feel better..." but who knows how I'll actually be feeling at that time? My parents and in-laws are all in their sixties, and while they do watch their own health you just don't know when a heart attack or stroke could happen, or even something mundane as a mistake while driving.

And it's not even just sibling, but the people they're married to. I'd like to think that it'll be easier for my family than my wife's due to the personality of my siblings compares to hers but a lot of my brothers married first generation americans (one from new zealand, one from china, one from south korea) and I have no idea how their cultures deal with death, and how they might annoy us, or how we might annoy them, when we interact at that time.

Life is complicated, death even moreso.
 
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