Hello there,
I wonder if anyone can help me, my family has been the victim of a serious case of forgery.
The asset in question is my grandmothers house, my grandmother re-married after my grandfathers death but after only two years in this new marraige passed away herself. At the time there was some dispute over the house that was left at the new husbands right to inhabit the property until his death, he had a life estate.
Recently the new husband died, but in the interrim has re-married himself and his new wife survives him. When we went to reclaim the house we found that the pair had forged my uncle and aunts signatures in a title change of the property to thier names, it appears they did this to take out a substantial loan against the house.
We have a civil attorny working on the case to recover the house, however its awfully slow going. I undersatnd that this forgery is also a criminal case and i'm wondering what sort of prosecution we could persue? The fraudlent parties are the survivng wife whose singature is on the title change, serveral of her drinking buddies who singed affadavits citing falsehoods and the notary.
This is really more about getting the house back than anything else (as my aunt is currently trying to raise her children in rented accomodation) but i'm hoping the threat of criminal action will spur this woman into playing ball and ending a long, expensive civil process. What sort of penalty could she be facing for this? How could we best go about prosecuting her?
The forgery is clear cut (my uncle was already dead a year before he was supposed to have signed) and the house is probably worth 150k
Thanks very much in advance for any advice you can give, very, very much appriciated.
I wonder if anyone can help me, my family has been the victim of a serious case of forgery.
The asset in question is my grandmothers house, my grandmother re-married after my grandfathers death but after only two years in this new marraige passed away herself. At the time there was some dispute over the house that was left at the new husbands right to inhabit the property until his death, he had a life estate.
Recently the new husband died, but in the interrim has re-married himself and his new wife survives him. When we went to reclaim the house we found that the pair had forged my uncle and aunts signatures in a title change of the property to thier names, it appears they did this to take out a substantial loan against the house.
We have a civil attorny working on the case to recover the house, however its awfully slow going. I undersatnd that this forgery is also a criminal case and i'm wondering what sort of prosecution we could persue? The fraudlent parties are the survivng wife whose singature is on the title change, serveral of her drinking buddies who singed affadavits citing falsehoods and the notary.
This is really more about getting the house back than anything else (as my aunt is currently trying to raise her children in rented accomodation) but i'm hoping the threat of criminal action will spur this woman into playing ball and ending a long, expensive civil process. What sort of penalty could she be facing for this? How could we best go about prosecuting her?
The forgery is clear cut (my uncle was already dead a year before he was supposed to have signed) and the house is probably worth 150k
Thanks very much in advance for any advice you can give, very, very much appriciated.
