Thanks for your quick reply! It's interesting that your tag line mentions adoption, since the person I'm trying to help just lost his adoptive father!
My friend lives in a condo here that was left to him by his father, but a quit claim deed has suddenly appeared giving the property to his father's girlfriend. Something very fishy going on, since the quit claim was to give her a property that was being left to her in the will anyway, and the condo was written in later. My friend is a bit mentally challenged & his father set him up a trust fund (being administered by trustee of a bank in their home state) to take care of him for the rest of his life. I have difficulty believing that he would just suddenly give the condo to the girlfriend a few months before he died. I figure that he gave her a quit claim for the property she was getting anyway to avoid probate &/or inheritance taxes & she might have said he should include the condo too & she would make sure it was then deeded back to my friend. But now she is saying she wants it appraised & he can BUY it from her. Interestingly, property values here have gone up over 100% in the last year, I don't think this is a co-incidence. She claims to have not known the condo was added to the quit claim, but if she was there to file it with the city & she IS a PHD & college professor, playing dumb seems out of her profile!
I'm trying to have the bank trustee sent us a copy of the quit claim so I can question the notary & find out exactly WHO filed it with the city. I see a real estate attorney in my friend's future!!
