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How can I contest the executor?

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TLH Needs Help

Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? I live in FL, but the will, land in question and the executor are in SC.

My father passed away in 2006 and left my mother a huge insurance policy for her and 48 acres of land to be divided between his five daughters. We still have not been given the deeds to our land and mom has breezed through the thousands and thousands of dollars given to her. She is now telling her sister that she wants to sell the land that has been in my father's family for years! My mother has been given everything on a silver platter: dad bought her original house, a neighbor willed her another home years later and she had dad purchase her a mobile home out in the country. She is a filthy person and a horrible hoarder, so all of these houses are so filthy and filled with garbage that they are literally a health hazard to the neighborhood (literally thousands of rats live in these homes). My point is this: my mother is incompetent to be handling this estate and I am afraid she will squander it and leave us with no land that we do deserve to have. This woman is legally insane and should be Baker Acted (all of her five daughters agree that she is crazy; she lives in squallor/filth and can't take care of herself well). How do I go about getting this out of her hands? I am in FL and she is in SC; I don't know how to handle this.
 
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Zigner

Senior Member, Non-Attorney
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? I live in FL, but the will, land in question and the executor are in SC.

My father passed away in 2006 and left my mother a huge insurance policy for her and 48 acres of land to be divided between his five daughters. We still have not been given the deeds to our land and mom has breezed through the thousands and thousands of dollars given to her. She is now telling her sister that she wants to sell the land that has been in my father's family for years! My mother has been given everything on a silver platter: dad bought her original house, a neighbor willed her another home years later and she had dad purchase her a mobile home out in the country. She is a filthy person and a horrible hoarder, so all of these houses are so filthy and filled with garbage that they are literally a health hazard to the neighborhood (literally thousands of rats live in these homes). My point is this: my mother is incompetent to be handling this estate and I am afraid she will squander it and leave us with no land that we do deserve to have. This woman is legally insane and should be Baker Acted (all of her five daughters agree that she is crazy; she lives in squallor/filth and can't take care of herself well). How do I go about getting this out of her hands? I am in FL and she is in SC; I don't know how to handle this.
So what if mom wants to sell the land? That's what she's SUPPOSED to do. Sell the land and divide the proceeds.
 

TLH Needs Help

Junior Member
Not if we don't want it sold!!!!! WE are the ones who inherited it; we should make that decision. This land has been in my dad's family for generations and here it will stay. This greedy woman has had enough of his money. If you have nothing productive to say (and you obviously don't) butt out.

To the person attempting to be helpful: dad had given his wife instructions to divide the land between the five of us daughters. I do know that this would cost some money, but we have all agreed that we are willing to do this.
 

nextwife

Senior Member
So, has anyone filed a will and been appointed executor? If no will, has anyone opened intestate probate and been appointed executor through probate court?

And, HOW is title to the land in question actually held?
 

anteater

Senior Member
So, has anyone filed a will and been appointed executor? If no will, has anyone opened intestate probate and been appointed executor through probate court?

And, HOW is title to the land in question actually held?
Funny, ain't it? The OP's first post ranted up one side and down the other about mommie dearest, but contained zilch upon which to give an opinion/advice.
 

swrdmbo

Member
So this is your Mother? You're not going to appreciate my comment either but that's just too bad...comes along with the free advice...

You are so worried about the land...why isn't anyone concerned about your Mother? If she is so off balance, and crazy as you say, she is not responsible for her behavior. So did you all just stand by and let her squander all the money your Father left her, and now only worry about it because it may affect the land you have inherited??

Wow...just wow. and of course...UHG!
 

Dandy Don

Senior Member
Talk to a family law attorney to find out whether someone in the family or a professional conservator should have mother's mental competency tested and whether a conservatorship should be requested in family law court.
 

nextwife

Senior Member
So this is your Mother? You're not going to appreciate my comment either but that's just too bad...comes along with the free advice...

You are so worried about the land...why isn't anyone concerned about your Mother? If she is so off balance, and crazy as you say, she is not responsible for her behavior. So did you all just stand by and let her squander all the money your Father left her, and now only worry about it because it may affect the land you have inherited??

Wow...just wow. and of course...UHG!
Have to agree. You all should have made certain she was appointed a guardian for her person and a guardian for her financial well being. And protected her ability to have care and housing in the future.


Been there, done that when I had a brain damaged parent.
 

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