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My husband & I decided to take in a cousin of his whom is 34 years old, and has physical and medical handicaps and can not work. She lived in a home that need way to much work so we sold the house and was to use the proceeds from the sale of her home to build and addition onto our home. All monies were put in accounts in all three names and started the proceedings of building the addition, now she has talked to other realatives that have not been there in the past like my husband & I have and they have convinced her that all we wanted was her money and that we are spending the monies for our personal gain and that we are not building an addition for her which is false.
She was to move in and I and my husband were going to take on the responsibility of taking care of her for the rest of her life and she would have lived here for free, meaning she would not pay rent, utilties, etc. The only she would have to pay for would be anything personal she may need. Food, utilities etc would have been taken care of us she would have also gotten free satelitte tv, cable internet access, and my husband and I would be cleaning after her, doing her laundry and cooking for her, another words it would have been better than having to figure out how to pay bills on 900.00 a month in a condo or apartment.
We, unfortunately have no written contract and she wants to back out of the deal and we already have over sixty thousand dollars invested into this addition and it is most of the way done.
We, have come to the conclusion that we are suppose to do all this and do it for free and get nothing for it but the added expense for nothing.
Please can someone explain what legal rights have to have this addition finished and what legal rights she has to back out of this deal.
My husband & I decided to take in a cousin of his whom is 34 years old, and has physical and medical handicaps and can not work. She lived in a home that need way to much work so we sold the house and was to use the proceeds from the sale of her home to build and addition onto our home. All monies were put in accounts in all three names and started the proceedings of building the addition, now she has talked to other realatives that have not been there in the past like my husband & I have and they have convinced her that all we wanted was her money and that we are spending the monies for our personal gain and that we are not building an addition for her which is false.
She was to move in and I and my husband were going to take on the responsibility of taking care of her for the rest of her life and she would have lived here for free, meaning she would not pay rent, utilties, etc. The only she would have to pay for would be anything personal she may need. Food, utilities etc would have been taken care of us she would have also gotten free satelitte tv, cable internet access, and my husband and I would be cleaning after her, doing her laundry and cooking for her, another words it would have been better than having to figure out how to pay bills on 900.00 a month in a condo or apartment.
We, unfortunately have no written contract and she wants to back out of the deal and we already have over sixty thousand dollars invested into this addition and it is most of the way done.
We, have come to the conclusion that we are suppose to do all this and do it for free and get nothing for it but the added expense for nothing.
Please can someone explain what legal rights have to have this addition finished and what legal rights she has to back out of this deal.