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gwammaof2

Junior Member
What is the name of your state? Calif
My grandad passed over a year ago. He left a living trust with my mom and her 2 siblings as co trustees and equal beneficiaries. My mom says that her siblings used my grandad's POA which listed all 3 of them, to somehow get to my grandad's money. They also sold the house belonging to my grandad and got my mom to sign off on the real estate papers. My mom says that they now want her to take less than her share of the sale of the house. She says since they already robbed my grandad's bank accounts blind why should she give up more than her third of the house. She got a lawyer but the lawyer said that the attorney my mom's siblings are using is on sick leave for several weeks. By the time that attorney returns my mom may have lost any proceeds from the sale of my grandad's house. My mom is not well and this is making her stressed. What should we do? How long can my mom's siblings and their attorney stall like this?
 


gwammaof2

Junior Member
Oh gosh, I am a not a liar, this problem is mine, not my mom's. No one answered my post before. I tried to change my story enough so that maybe someone would get interested. I have an attorney who is not doing anything. I do not want to fight with attorneys, I do not want to fight at all. I just want to get this trust behind me. The other side fraudulently took the bank money, actually abused the poor senior citizen who left this estate, and we wanted some justice for that abuse. Now we are so doggone tired of trying to get the justice, no one cares but us, it seems. We have spent our savings on the attorney and the other side's attorney who went on vacation and then sick leave since the first of August. We want the money which has sat in escrow since May to be dispersed and they will not talk, they just say nothing. How can we get this settled? Seems like we hired the wrong attorney, I know, but there are only a few thousand dollars in dispute and we did not ask for anything unreasonable. How come the bad guys are winning!
Thanks, you probably will take a step away from my post!!!
 

pojo2

Senior Member
Well in your lying mode your story barely makes sense anymore so why don't you back up and punt again telling us exactly what you are asking for YOU.
 

gwammaof2

Junior Member
Thanks for being patient. I really could use some good advice. I am paying an attorney but this attorney is not into the ugly side of trust disputes. I have already spent my savings, and I am getting scared. Hiring another attorney to litigate is going to be a problem for me. I have already spent well over $10k. There are 4 co-trustees who are also equal beneficiaries. the dispute is 2 against 2 and the other folks have a lawyer who does do litigation and the whole fight thing. We initially thought that the other 2 co-trustees were greedy moeny hungry creeps and there would be no long fight. One of them is on SSI and illegal drugs.There is only a few thousand being disputed, we want rent for the months the druggie lived in and held away the house belonging to the estate after our mom passed away. She kept all the personal possessions, too. The other 2 fraudulently drained the estate bank account (the POA in the trust required al 4 of us to sign, and the bank made an error and let them have the access on their own). All we want now is to have the remaining $313k dispursed to be free of these awful people and this trust. Life is way too short to drag this on and it is not sound financial management. The other attorney has been unavailable since the 1st week in August because after his vacation he developed a physical issue of some kind. We would like to try to file something to get the funds, at least those not in dispute released, but with him gone, and he had a court order during the period of time he was originally to be gone (up to Aug 14th) on file with our attorney. I know we should be able to ask our attorney these questions, but, oh well, she has no answer, says this could take forever.
 

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