My next door neighbor, 78 years old, with macular degeneration, allowed a gay man working at a neighborhood market to move into her house. The understanding was that he was to help her with paying her bills and be her 'eyes'.
After less than 6 months, she asked him to leave. Last Friday, I discovered after reading her Trust to her, and unknown to her, the attorney, and her ex-room mate were to own her house after her death, 50-50.
Stipulating in that will that the room mate must still be residing in her house, caring for her, and not received gifts from her as well.
She bought him a television set, and a new bed as well as draperies for the room and an entertainment center he took all items with him when he moved out.
When I read her trust to her, she said no one had ever read that in entirety, even when the attorney had her sign the trust, she knew she was signing a trust, and trusted her attorney to look out for her interest.
This woman has 3 children, and relatives from her marriage. Who have all been written out of her trust.
Were the attorney and the "market-man" involved with each other? This sounds pretty sordid.
"This woman has 3 children, and relatives from her marriage. Who have all been written out of her trust."
Sounds like this woman's children are incompetent or highly neglectful -- or if the kids are viable adults, perhaps the Mom was so controlling that she painted herself into this corner by not letting her kids help her with her business.
And I can tell the same story about my former landlady, who was similarly scammed by a straight man (who she caught on to and gave the boot) and then, a year later, by a black woman, who took her for a couple of hundred thousand before the old woman died.