Peanuts200788
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What is the name of your state? GA
My grandfather passed away on January 6, 2005. My father, who is his son, owns 1 acre next door to where his wife (my father's step-mother) now lives. He left everything to her (including their estate and 17 additional acres).
We had fenced in 1 3/4 acres and also had a well drilled on my grandfather's property (with his permission) for over 20 years because my grandfather originally told my father the land would be his anyway after his death.
After his death in 2005 we received a copy of his will and my father was not mentioned at all. We were then informed by my father's step mother that we were to move our fence off of her property.
She also took a hammer and beat the lock off of our pump house, and proceeded to destroy our well. Once this was done, she placed several POSTED signs on her property. As a result we had a new well drilled on our original acre that we have the deed to.
However, recently we discovered via a county website that the land is not in her name due to outstanding medical debts.
My question is did we make a hasty decision by moving our fence and putting down a new well? If so, can anything be done?
Also, does she have the right to "POST" the property if it is not legally in her name?
My grandfather passed away on January 6, 2005. My father, who is his son, owns 1 acre next door to where his wife (my father's step-mother) now lives. He left everything to her (including their estate and 17 additional acres).
We had fenced in 1 3/4 acres and also had a well drilled on my grandfather's property (with his permission) for over 20 years because my grandfather originally told my father the land would be his anyway after his death.
After his death in 2005 we received a copy of his will and my father was not mentioned at all. We were then informed by my father's step mother that we were to move our fence off of her property.
She also took a hammer and beat the lock off of our pump house, and proceeded to destroy our well. Once this was done, she placed several POSTED signs on her property. As a result we had a new well drilled on our original acre that we have the deed to.
However, recently we discovered via a county website that the land is not in her name due to outstanding medical debts.
My question is did we make a hasty decision by moving our fence and putting down a new well? If so, can anything be done?
Also, does she have the right to "POST" the property if it is not legally in her name?