burned_twice
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I don't even know how to make this a short version...will do my best. My Dad marries a woman 2 years ago. He was married to my mom 29 years. In May 2006, he calls me from Stepmother's home in Delaware and tells me to sell his Los Angeles house, send him the money, he has already bought a Florida house, sight unseen.
Turns out to be right across the street from HER daughter!
Father arrives in Florida, sick, really really sick. He cannot attend any signings of the purchase contract. She got a POA and signed for him. His signature is not on ONE page. Then she finished buying the house, took him to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, given one week to live.
I flew to Florida and took care of him for 7 weeks. He told me he wanted her to live in the Florida house the rest of HER life, but after her death, it is to go to his three kids. She knows he said this, her kids know he said this. It is not hear-say, They heard his wishes.
He died. I am doing my best to settle his estate. Since I believe stepmother and her daughter forced him to sell his house to buy a Florida house, we got hit with a HUGE income tax bill to pay. $126,000!! His tax attorney told me, if the house had been sold AFTER his death, we would not have had to pay taxes on it (It was in his Trust). But because wife wanted a Florida house, we had to sell. He died three weeks AFTER the sale.
Now "she says" Florida law says since HER name is on the deed, she owns the house 100%. I truly believe they co-erced a dying man into selling his home to buy his new wife a beautiful Florida home by HER daughter.
Can I sue stepmother and her daughter for the entire purchase price of the Florida home, PLUS the IRS damages I had to pay? She still owns her own home in Delaware that she can move back to.
She is living in a house that came from MY mother's estate, that could now be willed to HER children!
Any suggestions? And If I should sue, can you recommend a really, really aggressive attorney in Jacksonville, FL?
(He had a California Living Will & Trust...her name is NOT mentioned once, nor "a future wife...")
Sorry this is so long!
Turns out to be right across the street from HER daughter!
Father arrives in Florida, sick, really really sick. He cannot attend any signings of the purchase contract. She got a POA and signed for him. His signature is not on ONE page. Then she finished buying the house, took him to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, given one week to live.
I flew to Florida and took care of him for 7 weeks. He told me he wanted her to live in the Florida house the rest of HER life, but after her death, it is to go to his three kids. She knows he said this, her kids know he said this. It is not hear-say, They heard his wishes.
He died. I am doing my best to settle his estate. Since I believe stepmother and her daughter forced him to sell his house to buy a Florida house, we got hit with a HUGE income tax bill to pay. $126,000!! His tax attorney told me, if the house had been sold AFTER his death, we would not have had to pay taxes on it (It was in his Trust). But because wife wanted a Florida house, we had to sell. He died three weeks AFTER the sale.
Now "she says" Florida law says since HER name is on the deed, she owns the house 100%. I truly believe they co-erced a dying man into selling his home to buy his new wife a beautiful Florida home by HER daughter.
Can I sue stepmother and her daughter for the entire purchase price of the Florida home, PLUS the IRS damages I had to pay? She still owns her own home in Delaware that she can move back to.
She is living in a house that came from MY mother's estate, that could now be willed to HER children!
Any suggestions? And If I should sue, can you recommend a really, really aggressive attorney in Jacksonville, FL?
(He had a California Living Will & Trust...her name is NOT mentioned once, nor "a future wife...")
Sorry this is so long!
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