Brother in law impersonating as my Attorney

[LittleSis]

Is there a statute of limitations on impersonating an Attorney?


Information on the incident if needed:

This is so crazy that it's almost unbelievable , I can't believe someone would have the mind to even attempt such a thing. I'm sure his reason was / is the property is paid for and he would live rent free.



My two sisters and I were willed my mothers estate. My sisters were living in the two homes on the estate. Before my mothers death she and I talked about whether we would keep the estate or sell it and we both agreed that we would keep it unless one of us wanted to sell it. For some reason the decision was changed.



This is what was stated:

Any real property I may own is to be sold and the net proceeds divided
between my living children who survive me for 60 days or as \"AGREED by ALL
living beneficiaries\"


Comment:. .
I assumed AGREED by ALL living beneficiaries meant to agree to sell. Not in agreement to keep.



In a heated argument my brother in law slipped his tongue and told me if it wasn't for him I wouldn't even have the property. He told me that he dressed in a suit and carried a brief case and presented him self as the attorney of the estate and stopped the sell.


( I'm aware that my signature would be needed in agreement to stop the sell )



I don't know where he was when he did this. I'm not able to get this info from him for obvious reasons. It's been a period of time by the time I found out. I wish to find out if there is a statute of limitations so I can proceed action against him



Thank you for your time.

Little Sis..

 

[dee_dub]

I'm confused. Your brother in law stopped what sale? Even if he did do this, considering you and your sister had agreed to keep the house, how did this harm you? Start again, from the top.

FWIW, I suspect that this might be better addressed as a civil wrong than as a criminal wrong. Impersonating an attorney is not a crime as far as I know. Practicing law without a license is may be, but your BIL didn't do that. Maybe fraud, but it's tough to say on the confusing story you've given so far.

This is what was stated:

Any real property I may own is to be sold and the net proceeds divided
between my living children who survive me for 60 days or as \"AGREED by ALL
living beneficiaries\"


Comment:. .
I assumed AGREED by ALL living beneficiaries meant to agree to sell. Not in agreement to keep.

It's impossible to say what it means in absence of seeing the whole agreement, but I would speculate it is pretty self-explanatory. The property is to be sold within 60 days and the proceeds divided up unless you all agree otherwise.

 

[jharris352]

As usual Dee is right. Your knuckle headed brother in law is possibly guilty of fraud but there is no real harm done right now. What I don't understand is: Who is the executor of the estate? No one in their right mind listens to some yahoo in a suit claiming to be an attorney. The only person that could truly stop the sale would be the executor. Is this will being probated? It must be probated because only your Mother's signature (and she has passed), or that of the Executor can sell the house.

Your signature is not needed to start or stop the sale and your signature isn't needed to close the sale, you don't own the property unless you are on some deed with rights of survivorship. If you were on the deed there is nothing that can force you to sell the property.

So my chief question remains: Who is the Executor of the Will and is this will in Probate?