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What is the name of your state? TN
I'm the admin of my ex husbands "estate" if you can call it that. I'm also the legal guardian of his (our) kids. He died only a few months ago w/out a will.
The problem is his girlfriend who is living in the house he rented. She won't let me in to inventory or take the personal effects to pass to the kids or to satisfy the inventory I must make for the estate. She has threatened physical violence if we step on the property. Landlord is no help and doesn't want to get involved.
I had a lawyer and he suggested we wait to get the property and inventory until she got a lawyer. Well she's basically poor white trash and hasn't made any attempt to get a lawyer or the money. The sick thing is that my exhusband mother (the kids own grandmother) is siding with the girlfriend and the girlfriend spent the last month before I got adminstration papers cleaning out the bank account on HIS account. I'm out of state and went up for a week to get the probate process started and spent almost 2,000 out of pocket and walked away with admin papers...that's it/ I even had the mail forwarded and she stopped it so I have no clue about creditors at this point although it's posted in the newspaper. When I called the police so they could come with me to the house they said that I would have to go to civil court to get an order to go on the property and if they came with me it would be intimidation. I thought my admin papers were the court order that authorized me of that right. any suggestions??? I called the probate court and they couldn't give me any advice. I let go the lawyer and he wanted out anyway when he found out there was only 240.00 in the estate (no real estate, etc.) and already 47,000 in claims filed in probate. Also is there a website I can get form letters to send to creditors that the estate is insolvent? Or does the probate court do that. The property at the house that he shared with the girlfriend is probably only worth 10,000 at most but the kids want pictures of them back and some family items.
I'm the admin of my ex husbands "estate" if you can call it that. I'm also the legal guardian of his (our) kids. He died only a few months ago w/out a will.
The problem is his girlfriend who is living in the house he rented. She won't let me in to inventory or take the personal effects to pass to the kids or to satisfy the inventory I must make for the estate. She has threatened physical violence if we step on the property. Landlord is no help and doesn't want to get involved.
I had a lawyer and he suggested we wait to get the property and inventory until she got a lawyer. Well she's basically poor white trash and hasn't made any attempt to get a lawyer or the money. The sick thing is that my exhusband mother (the kids own grandmother) is siding with the girlfriend and the girlfriend spent the last month before I got adminstration papers cleaning out the bank account on HIS account. I'm out of state and went up for a week to get the probate process started and spent almost 2,000 out of pocket and walked away with admin papers...that's it/ I even had the mail forwarded and she stopped it so I have no clue about creditors at this point although it's posted in the newspaper. When I called the police so they could come with me to the house they said that I would have to go to civil court to get an order to go on the property and if they came with me it would be intimidation. I thought my admin papers were the court order that authorized me of that right. any suggestions??? I called the probate court and they couldn't give me any advice. I let go the lawyer and he wanted out anyway when he found out there was only 240.00 in the estate (no real estate, etc.) and already 47,000 in claims filed in probate. Also is there a website I can get form letters to send to creditors that the estate is insolvent? Or does the probate court do that. The property at the house that he shared with the girlfriend is probably only worth 10,000 at most but the kids want pictures of them back and some family items.