Thank you for anyone that takes the time to read this.
I will be as detailed as possible this is in California.
My girlfriends mother committed suicide this past weekend, and the family is coming out of the woodwork. My girlfriend (Eve) is barely 18 (only 6 months ago) and is still in high school. Her parents are divorced for many years ( 13 years) she has one sister who is older then her and went with her father after the split, that side of the family has had a little contact with her mother since then. Since then she has returned to town this week proceeded to drain her mother’s bank accounts ($300 a day daily) to ‘keep the money from a probate lawyer getting it’ but is spending and shopping frivolously paid for the modest funeral etc. There is a will but it’s very dated (10 years old) and was written when both girls were minor and treats them as such. The rest of the family (the mother’s sisters) are moving in quickly sweeping up what few assets there are (car, house). There is no life insurance, all bank accounts are soley in the mothers name. There is no benefactor or other parties listed on the 401k. The house was supposed to be held by an attorney out of state where the mother lived at the time of the draft, but the attorney seems to have passed away as well.
What can and needs to be done? This girl is still in high school, she has no place to go as the home is closed for 2 months as a bio hazard and requires thousands just to clean. She is suppose to graduate if she changes schools she will not and I live 2 hours away.
I’m asking if anyone can point me into at least some basic directions I’m cluless as where to even begin and everyone else is moving so swiftly she’s going to be left homeless as well as bankrupt from this as well loose her scholarship by not being able to finish high school compounding on the loss of her mother.
I will be as detailed as possible this is in California.
My girlfriends mother committed suicide this past weekend, and the family is coming out of the woodwork. My girlfriend (Eve) is barely 18 (only 6 months ago) and is still in high school. Her parents are divorced for many years ( 13 years) she has one sister who is older then her and went with her father after the split, that side of the family has had a little contact with her mother since then. Since then she has returned to town this week proceeded to drain her mother’s bank accounts ($300 a day daily) to ‘keep the money from a probate lawyer getting it’ but is spending and shopping frivolously paid for the modest funeral etc. There is a will but it’s very dated (10 years old) and was written when both girls were minor and treats them as such. The rest of the family (the mother’s sisters) are moving in quickly sweeping up what few assets there are (car, house). There is no life insurance, all bank accounts are soley in the mothers name. There is no benefactor or other parties listed on the 401k. The house was supposed to be held by an attorney out of state where the mother lived at the time of the draft, but the attorney seems to have passed away as well.
What can and needs to be done? This girl is still in high school, she has no place to go as the home is closed for 2 months as a bio hazard and requires thousands just to clean. She is suppose to graduate if she changes schools she will not and I live 2 hours away.
I’m asking if anyone can point me into at least some basic directions I’m cluless as where to even begin and everyone else is moving so swiftly she’s going to be left homeless as well as bankrupt from this as well loose her scholarship by not being able to finish high school compounding on the loss of her mother.