Looted estate by a new care giver

Looted estate by a new care giver
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<br />A good friend of mine asked me to look into property that his Grandfather owned, his Grandfather G/F just passed. His Grandmother passed less than a year ago, they were married over 55 years. This women who happens to be a certified nurses aid and mightve worked with his wife or him as an aid professionally approaches G/F and tells him that shes a nurse and can help him out, but to help him with his legal affairs he should marry her. He did marry her, she then added herself to his deeds within two months, two months later she deeds them out of his her name to a relative of hers in another state for $10 each, G/F dies three months later now with no estate. No cash, jewelry or homes. This was all done in a span of seven months. There are children of the G/f, but they their selves are incapacitated. This mess is left to grandchildren half the country away to deal with. No one has money to hire an attorney to take this woman to court. The Police the Prosecutors offices both said, he married her so theres nothing they can do.
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<br />G/F was in his 80s, the woman in her late 50s, they never lived together as man and wife, infact she was/is living with a guy.
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<br />I found all this out when looking up his deeds for my friend. She herself wrote out all the new deeds in her own hand writing, so she knew exactly what she was doing when it comes to real estate. No one had known what she was up to.
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<br />When the G/F died, she rushed to have him cremated, against his wishes. The family feels that she might have poisoned him, why else the rush to cremate against his wishes?
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<br />If you have older family out there with any nest egg, even a small one, there are people out there looking to take it, with impunity no less. Check your older relatives deeds, if they are online it usually takes less than five minutes to do.
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<br />I cant believe how easy this is for this woman to get away with cheating needy heirs of their inheritance maybe even murder.
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<br />By looting the estate prior to his death, there is no estate to probate, no heirs to deal with through the Surrogate Court system.
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<br />Is there a chance that G/F willingly gave everything to her to the exclusion of his needy kids family? Hell no everyone says.
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<br />Originally posted by Jon Holdman:
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<br />None of the children or grandchildren happened to notice grandpa had gotten married? Seems like something like that might have come up in routine conversations.
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<br />None of the children or grandchildren were around when he died to have input into the arrangements?
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<br />They did hear that he got married again, they were ok with that not knowing what she would do.
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<br />None were around, they all live across the country. G/Fs sister her daughter told everyone what happened, they were the closest ones living 30 minutes away. The Wife kept everyone in the dark apparently.
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<br />Are you sure? If he was bedridden and not of sound mind, he couldnt have given his consent to the marriage, could he? Also, her transfering the property to someone else right after marriage should not look kosher.
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<br />Can you do a search under her name and see what other properties she might have owned? Then contact those relatives and theyre likely in the same boat. interested.
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<br />Im sure there are attorneys that might take it on on consignment: Get 30% of whatever funds they can recover.
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<br />Sadly, I see these situation fairly regularly of course, you have to consider my business and clientele. It can be pretty tough to unwind such a deal.
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<br />Jon Holdman asks the tough questions that implies the familys lack of responsibility. Hes right.
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<br />To remedy, what has to occur is to establish that the end of life wife took advantage of an octogenarian who had diminished capacity. Tough to establish, especially after death, but Im no lawyer.
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<br />Some years ago I received a call from a paralegal involved with a similar case. When I was given the address I was astonished because I recognized it as the parents of an old girlfriend from college days! The Dad had died and a young man had befriended the lonely Widow and convinced her to add him to title. Besides the obvious wrong doing, the daughters had a very tough time getting the offender to cooperate with the terms of a court order, despite ugly consequences.
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<br />Original post WAS made as a cautionary tale. We can only hope Grandpa was happy with the care he ultimately received, not from family but from the late in life wife. It can be pretty tough to unwind such a deal.
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<br />Jon Holdman asks the tough questions that implies the familys lack of responsibility. Hes right.
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<br />To remedy, what has to occur is to establish that the end of life wife took advantage of an octogenarian who had diminished capacity. Tough to establish, especially after death, but Im no lawyer.
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<br />Some years ago I received a call from a paralegal involved with a similar case. When I was given the address I was astonished because I recognized it as the parents of an old girlfriend from college days! The Dad had died and a young man had befriended the lonely Widow and convinced her to add him to title. Besides the obvious wrong doing, the daughters had a very tough time getting the offender to cooperate with the terms of a court order, despite ugly consequences.
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<br />Original post WAS made as a cautionary tale. We can only hope Grandpa was happy with the care he ultimately received, not from family but from the late in life wife.
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<br />Rick Jon, The family kids in their 70s in this case are invalids themselves, due to dementia and such. The Grandparents moved across country to retire in warm weather years ago, thus putting themselves in the situation of being on their own. This is the kind of thing that happens when people move away from loved ones / family.
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<br />No, I can imagine G/F wasnt happy in his late in life wife, or at least wouldnt be if he knew what she had done. She didnt physically care for him, she never lived with him as a wife, she just cleaned him out made sure to transfer the properties before he died so there would be no need to probate any wills that might be out there because the estate is down to 0.