linda_babb
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In 1998 there was a verbal agreement between myself, my husband, my father and my step mother as follows:
My husband & I were to purchase my fathers home (in Southern California) which I have lived in since he purchased it in 1966. The monthly payments were $350.00 per month deposited into a joint account held by all four of us. It was agreeded that if my father died we were to continue to make the monthly payments to my stepmother until her death and upon her death the home was ours. iIt was stipulated that none of my other siblings were entitled to this house. In may of 1999 my father passed away and we continued to make the monthly payments until July 1999. Since then my stepmother closed out the account and has waived all rights to any monies because now my siblings now have decided that they should get the monies. My stepmother says the house belongs to myself and my husband as we have always lived in it, we have paid for the property taxes and the house insurance since 1998 and we have also always paid for all the expenses to maintain the house since our marriage in 1983 and also paid rent prior to the purchase agreement.
There is no will and we need legal advise as how to transfer the Deed as my dad owned it free and clear.
My husband & I were to purchase my fathers home (in Southern California) which I have lived in since he purchased it in 1966. The monthly payments were $350.00 per month deposited into a joint account held by all four of us. It was agreeded that if my father died we were to continue to make the monthly payments to my stepmother until her death and upon her death the home was ours. iIt was stipulated that none of my other siblings were entitled to this house. In may of 1999 my father passed away and we continued to make the monthly payments until July 1999. Since then my stepmother closed out the account and has waived all rights to any monies because now my siblings now have decided that they should get the monies. My stepmother says the house belongs to myself and my husband as we have always lived in it, we have paid for the property taxes and the house insurance since 1998 and we have also always paid for all the expenses to maintain the house since our marriage in 1983 and also paid rent prior to the purchase agreement.
There is no will and we need legal advise as how to transfer the Deed as my dad owned it free and clear.