So my step-grandmother passed away a few nights ago and apparently she had been milking my grandpa of all his money for years. He was under the impression that all of his money was going into their bank account etc, but in reality it was going to her son. She has one bank account and it hs about 2k in it, everything else is gone.
More importantly the house that my grandpa paid off years ago is now owned by her son she somehow managed to get the title in her sons name, along with their two cars as well.
So her son told my grandpa that he can live there for four or five months until he found somewhere else to live and that he can have the minivan that he paid for in cash about two years ago.
Then today my dad was trying to find out where all of my grandpa's savings are at so he calls her son. He was acting like a real asshat and now says my grandpa can only have the van when he moves out which he is only giving him three months to live there now. On top of all this her son has cleaned out the house of anything of any value and basically left a bunch of sorted through junk.
Apparently this lady had some master plan to leave my grandpa with nothing even though she made no money what so ever and has been taken care of by my grandpa since the 70's. Now her son, who my grandpa raised, put food on his table, clothes on his back, etc. won't even give my grandpa one cent or let him live in his own house?
We can't figure out how the titles for the house and cars got transferred over to the asshat but we speculating that it was when my grandpa had a stroke two years ago and was in the hospital for a while.
The whole situation blows and it looks like there is noting we can do. Does anyone know any of the laws in Michigan pertaining to your spouses death or know of any lawyers that practice in this area?
UPDATE #1
His house was signed over to his wife back in 1980? Somehow she had the title transferred from my gramps name to her sons who was like 18 at the time. The cars were transferred over when my grandpa had his stroke two years ago.
We found did find a bank account that was jointly held by gramps, his wife and her son. There was 22k in it about two weeks ago but the son withdrew about 12k for funeral/ misc expenses. The son has transferred over my grampas one van to him in exchange for my grandpa leaving the house sooner so the son can sell it for about 80k. The son was an idiot cause he didn't clear the remaining 8k out of the jointly held bank account so as soon as the title was signed over my dad and grandpa drove to the bank and withdrew the reaminder of the money.
Today the son called asking for the keys to his house so he could show it at an open house and asked what day he will be movd out completely? Grandp drove in from Michigan and stayed here in Cleveland for two nights but was miserable. He wants to be in his house near his friends, not 140 miles away.
The really bad thing is that he is kinda starting to loose it so he definitely can't live on his own, even if he had any money and he can't live in an assisted living house because it is way to expensive and the government isn't helping out all in a case like this.
It was pretty sad because he took a walk this morning and got lost in a rainstorm. My dad had to drive out and find him all soaking wet, etc..... He was all confused and upset that he didn't quite remember how to get back, and decided he was going to drive back to Michigan to his house.
We are currently trying to get an injunction on the sale of his house so we can at least dely that to see if anything can be done to help him out. The sad part is that he trusted his wife so much that it i all kinda his own fault for not keeping an eye out on things. Now it is looking like he is completely screwed and soon to be homeless.
More importantly the house that my grandpa paid off years ago is now owned by her son she somehow managed to get the title in her sons name, along with their two cars as well.
So her son told my grandpa that he can live there for four or five months until he found somewhere else to live and that he can have the minivan that he paid for in cash about two years ago.
Then today my dad was trying to find out where all of my grandpa's savings are at so he calls her son. He was acting like a real asshat and now says my grandpa can only have the van when he moves out which he is only giving him three months to live there now. On top of all this her son has cleaned out the house of anything of any value and basically left a bunch of sorted through junk.
Apparently this lady had some master plan to leave my grandpa with nothing even though she made no money what so ever and has been taken care of by my grandpa since the 70's. Now her son, who my grandpa raised, put food on his table, clothes on his back, etc. won't even give my grandpa one cent or let him live in his own house?
We can't figure out how the titles for the house and cars got transferred over to the asshat but we speculating that it was when my grandpa had a stroke two years ago and was in the hospital for a while.
The whole situation blows and it looks like there is noting we can do. Does anyone know any of the laws in Michigan pertaining to your spouses death or know of any lawyers that practice in this area?
UPDATE #1
His house was signed over to his wife back in 1980? Somehow she had the title transferred from my gramps name to her sons who was like 18 at the time. The cars were transferred over when my grandpa had his stroke two years ago.
We found did find a bank account that was jointly held by gramps, his wife and her son. There was 22k in it about two weeks ago but the son withdrew about 12k for funeral/ misc expenses. The son has transferred over my grampas one van to him in exchange for my grandpa leaving the house sooner so the son can sell it for about 80k. The son was an idiot cause he didn't clear the remaining 8k out of the jointly held bank account so as soon as the title was signed over my dad and grandpa drove to the bank and withdrew the reaminder of the money.
Today the son called asking for the keys to his house so he could show it at an open house and asked what day he will be movd out completely? Grandp drove in from Michigan and stayed here in Cleveland for two nights but was miserable. He wants to be in his house near his friends, not 140 miles away.
The really bad thing is that he is kinda starting to loose it so he definitely can't live on his own, even if he had any money and he can't live in an assisted living house because it is way to expensive and the government isn't helping out all in a case like this.
It was pretty sad because he took a walk this morning and got lost in a rainstorm. My dad had to drive out and find him all soaking wet, etc..... He was all confused and upset that he didn't quite remember how to get back, and decided he was going to drive back to Michigan to his house.
We are currently trying to get an injunction on the sale of his house so we can at least dely that to see if anything can be done to help him out. The sad part is that he trusted his wife so much that it i all kinda his own fault for not keeping an eye out on things. Now it is looking like he is completely screwed and soon to be homeless.
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