>I live in California. My mother lived in Washington State.
>It is almost four years that my mother died, I
>believe due to the emotional abuse inflicted upon her by
>my (brainwashed by his wife)brother and his wife. My mother
>lived alone, and my brother and his wife, took her
>to the doctor , hospital and store.
>I was so traumatized regarding the events surrounding my mother's
>death, that when I called Adult Protective Services, they told
>me the statute of limitations was about to run out
>and they wouldn't investigate. I think I called about two
>months before the three years was up. My mother called
>me and told me two months before she died that
>she had made a new will and she made it
>out so that my brother, sister and I would inherit
>her house. She repeated this again to me a month
>later, just before she went into the nursing home.
>When I went to see her, my brother told me
>that my mother had done a quit claim and put
>his name on it to protect the house from leins
>from the nursing home( I have since learned that this
>is illegal). I trusted my brother and assumed that he
>would honor our mother's wll. I was wrong.
>After my mother died and he finally sent my sister
>and I the papers, we were stunned to see that
>my sister-in-laws name was on the quit claim. My mother
>despised my sister-in-law and on several occasions told me that
>she was afraid that my sister-in-law would wind up with
>her house or try to take her house. I
>thought it an unrealistic fear, as I couldn't believe that
>anyone would do such a thing and I thought my
>brother would not do this. I was wrong. After my
>mother died, my brother said he couldn't remember the conversation
>that we had where he told me about the quit
>claim being done to protect the house against leins. In
>subsequent conversations, when I asked him about the quit claim,
>he said on all three occasions, "we did that".
>I found out that on a day that my mother
>got out of the hospital, they must have taken her
>to an attorney and the will, quit claim and a
>durable power of attorney was done on the same day.
>If it were not for the quit claim, the will
>reads just like my mother told me. My sister and
>I have reason to believe that they emptied my mothers
>bank account too. My sister and I did not go
>up there when my mother died, as they had begun
>moving in before she died, so we don't even have
>a scrap of paper that belonged to my mother. My
>sister-in-law went through all of my mother's personal things and
>emailed me and told me where they had decided to
>put my mother's ash"s.
>My sister told me , after my mother died that
>my mother told her that my sister-in=law went to my
>mother's house and threatened her and told her that if
>she didn't sign over her assets they wouldn't take care
>of her anymore.
>Right around the time that my mother made this will,
>my sister-in-law emailed and told me my mother was addicted
>to sleeping pills taking as many as 80 pills in
>two weeks time. I believe that she was doing this
>to escape the pain from the abuse she was receiving.
>My brother died last year and now my sister-in-law, who
>caused my mother over thirty years of emotional pain ,
>holds the title to my mothers house, and is benefitting
>from what my mother always said, "that she scrimped and
>saved to pay for the house so she could leave
>it to her children."
>Every day that she stands in my mother's house, I
>have the memory of my mother "sobbing" over the way,
>my sister-in-law treated her.
>I called a Elder Law Attorney, and they said it
>was too late, the limitations had expired.
>I still want justice. Does anyone know of anything I
>can do?.
>It is almost four years that my mother died, I
>believe due to the emotional abuse inflicted upon her by
>my (brainwashed by his wife)brother and his wife. My mother
>lived alone, and my brother and his wife, took her
>to the doctor , hospital and store.
>I was so traumatized regarding the events surrounding my mother's
>death, that when I called Adult Protective Services, they told
>me the statute of limitations was about to run out
>and they wouldn't investigate. I think I called about two
>months before the three years was up. My mother called
>me and told me two months before she died that
>she had made a new will and she made it
>out so that my brother, sister and I would inherit
>her house. She repeated this again to me a month
>later, just before she went into the nursing home.
>When I went to see her, my brother told me
>that my mother had done a quit claim and put
>his name on it to protect the house from leins
>from the nursing home( I have since learned that this
>is illegal). I trusted my brother and assumed that he
>would honor our mother's wll. I was wrong.
>After my mother died and he finally sent my sister
>and I the papers, we were stunned to see that
>my sister-in-laws name was on the quit claim. My mother
>despised my sister-in-law and on several occasions told me that
>she was afraid that my sister-in-law would wind up with
>her house or try to take her house. I
>thought it an unrealistic fear, as I couldn't believe that
>anyone would do such a thing and I thought my
>brother would not do this. I was wrong. After my
>mother died, my brother said he couldn't remember the conversation
>that we had where he told me about the quit
>claim being done to protect the house against leins. In
>subsequent conversations, when I asked him about the quit claim,
>he said on all three occasions, "we did that".
>I found out that on a day that my mother
>got out of the hospital, they must have taken her
>to an attorney and the will, quit claim and a
>durable power of attorney was done on the same day.
>If it were not for the quit claim, the will
>reads just like my mother told me. My sister and
>I have reason to believe that they emptied my mothers
>bank account too. My sister and I did not go
>up there when my mother died, as they had begun
>moving in before she died, so we don't even have
>a scrap of paper that belonged to my mother. My
>sister-in-law went through all of my mother's personal things and
>emailed me and told me where they had decided to
>put my mother's ash"s.
>My sister told me , after my mother died that
>my mother told her that my sister-in=law went to my
>mother's house and threatened her and told her that if
>she didn't sign over her assets they wouldn't take care
>of her anymore.
>Right around the time that my mother made this will,
>my sister-in-law emailed and told me my mother was addicted
>to sleeping pills taking as many as 80 pills in
>two weeks time. I believe that she was doing this
>to escape the pain from the abuse she was receiving.
>My brother died last year and now my sister-in-law, who
>caused my mother over thirty years of emotional pain ,
>holds the title to my mothers house, and is benefitting
>from what my mother always said, "that she scrimped and
>saved to pay for the house so she could leave
>it to her children."
>Every day that she stands in my mother's house, I
>have the memory of my mother "sobbing" over the way,
>my sister-in-law treated her.
>I called a Elder Law Attorney, and they said it
>was too late, the limitations had expired.
>I still want justice. Does anyone know of anything I
>can do?.