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Elder Abuse and brother quit claimed mother's house

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muzzygirl

Junior Member
>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?.
 


BlondiePB

Senior Member
Since the statutes of limitations has passed, you have no legal recourse in this matter. The only justice you can seek is "living well". Counseling can help you overcome all the bitterness and injustice you are burdened with.
 

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