William Burgess
Member
- Jurisdiction
- Florida
Ok. So I have this complex ordeal I am trying to figure out for my dad. Basically, my grandfather passed away and had remarried. He did not leave behind a will of any type. To my knowledge, half of the estate was supposed to stay with the woman he was married to, and half of it was to go to my dad (her step-son, the decedent's only son.) The estate stayed with the woman he was married to instead, and not much was ever said. We found out that a lady who was friends with the woman my grandpa re-married to, came in and was granted POA over her. She was appointed Durable POA over her transactions at Regions Bank, and non-durable POA over her financial, medical, and all other affairs of house and possessions on Apr. 20, 2019. On Jan. 17, 2019 she self dealt with herself and "sold" two pieces of property to herself. On June 21, 2019 she set up a trust and put the two properties in the trust. One of those pieces of properties was the one that my dad was supposedly the rightful heir to half of it. There are also questions are to where the money my step-grandmother had went to. The lady that was granted POA over her never had a job yet started going on expensive trips around the US and overseas. Another thing that happened is we were not informed of my step-grandmothers conditions. We all assumed she was doing fine. We later found out that the POA took control of her money and put her in a nursing home eventually. Before that she wasn't making sure she had adequate care, food, etc. It apparently got so bad to the point where she had the law called on her because she was stripping down to her underwear and chasing vehicles. This was well before the POA signed the properties to herself. She actually had a stroke not long before this POA made her move. My step-grandmother was visited by my father and a cousin of mine and she didn't kow she was staying in this place. She was under the impression that she would be going back home and wasn't aware of the situation. With her more than likely being deemed "mentally incompetent to control assets" and the like before the POA signed over property to herself shouldn't that be illegal? All I want to do is look into if the one piece of property can be signed over back into my dad's name somehow and things be made right. What would you all recommend be done with a situation like this to try to make things right? Thank you. Hopefully he can get what was rightfully his that the POA tried so hard to sneak away from him.