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Connecticut son reportedly wants to evict 98-year-old mother
foxnews.com ^ | 2-17-12

Posted on 02/17/2012 9:05:08 AM PST by rawhide

A Connecticut mother reportedly received an unusual gift for her 98th birthday from her eldest son -- eviction papers.

Mary Kantorowski, who has lived in the same Fairfield, Conn., home since 1953, is now facing eviction from her yellow, Cape Cod-style home valued at $333,410, the Connecticut Post reports. Her son Peter Kantorowski, 71, a retired taxidermist, said he's doing it for her own good.

"She would be better off living with people her own age," he told the newspaper.

According to Probate Court records, Mary Kantorowski and her husband, John, agreed to transfer the house to a trust administered by Peter Kantorowski on the condition that Mary would live there until her death, and upon her death, the house would go to Peter and his younger brother, Jack, the newspaper reports.

In July 2005, however, Peter Kantorowski quitclaimed the house from that trust to another he and his wife control, giving him ownership of the house. Six years later, in Dec. 13, 2011, his mother's 98th birthday, Peter Kantorowski had his mother served with eviction papers.

"This is just a despicable situation," said Richard Bortolot Jr., a Stratford lawyer appointed by Fairfield Probate Judge Daniel Caruso to represent Mary Kantorowski. "Mary has been living here happily paying all the expenses for the house and now her son, Peter, comes along and is telling her, 'Get the hell out,' so he can sell it."

"My husband worked hard, difficult jobs to buy this house," Mary Kantorowski told the Connecticut Post. "He built the garage and did a lot of work on the house and he told me never to leave it."

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: connecticut; evict; marykantorowski; peterkantorowski; richardbortolotjr
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1 posted on 02/17/2012 9:05:16 AM PST by rawhide
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To: rawhide

More here:

http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Son-wants-to-evict-98-year-old-mom-3337069.php


2 posted on 02/17/2012 9:06:35 AM PST by rawhide
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To: rawhide

“Baby Boomer” SCUM!


3 posted on 02/17/2012 9:08:28 AM PST by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: US Navy Vet

The son is not a baby boomer, he is to old. (started 1946)


4 posted on 02/17/2012 9:10:03 AM PST by svcw (Only difference between Romney & BH is one thinks he will be god & other one thinks he already is.)
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To: rawhide

I’ll guess there is a special spot in hell for vermin like him. What he doesn’t seem to remember is that he is only about twenty years behind his mother.


5 posted on 02/17/2012 9:11:16 AM PST by RobinWWJD
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To: svcw

Still SCUM!


6 posted on 02/17/2012 9:11:35 AM PST by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: rawhide

At least he didn’t push her down the stairs. Yeah, she would be so much better off if he had her money in his pocket. Scum.


7 posted on 02/17/2012 9:13:51 AM PST by JimSEA
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To: rawhide

Taxidermist with a mommy issue, hmmm. Put her in the root cellar, boy!


8 posted on 02/17/2012 9:16:37 AM PST by Lady Lucky ( Exposure to the Son may prevent burning.)
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To: rawhide
Her son Peter Kantorowski, 71, a retired taxidermist

This could end very badly. I think maybe she should get out while she still can.

9 posted on 02/17/2012 9:17:17 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (I am pro-Jesus, anti-abortion, pro-limited government, anti-GOP.)
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To: rawhide

Apparently, the older son served his mother eviction papers on her birthday.

From the article: “Bortolot, who is not being paid to represent Mary Kantorowski, said shortly after serving his mother with eviction papers, Peter Kantorowski attempted to put the house up for sale. He was stopped by subsequent Probate Court proceedings. During one of those proceedings, it was determined Peter Kantorowski had wrongly taken on his mother’s power of attorney, using her money for his expenses.”

Read more: http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Son-wants-to-evict-98-year-old-mom-3337069.php#ixzz1mewwVciL

Such hate. And greed.


10 posted on 02/17/2012 9:17:55 AM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: rawhide; Vendome

wow, he’s COLD.


11 posted on 02/17/2012 9:18:55 AM PST by Shimmer1 (No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up.)
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To: rawhide

He could get a whole new spin from the press by saying that the house uses too many carbon credits. That darn old house needs to be sold in order to be upgraded with “clean enery” technologies.


12 posted on 02/17/2012 9:19:50 AM PST by Londo Molari
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To: rawhide

“She would be better off living with people her own age,”

Most people of her age no longer lives in this world.


13 posted on 02/17/2012 9:20:00 AM PST by ravager
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To: rawhide
He signed a deal premised on an assumption that his mother would be dead before it was time for him to retire, enabling to sell her house.

Looks like his morbid assumption was wrong and she has lived 15-20 years longer than he was planning on.

He sounds like the guy who tried to pick off Jeanne Calment when she was 90 and he was 47 with a similar deal. He died at 77 and she was still alive.

14 posted on 02/17/2012 9:22:09 AM PST by wideawake
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According to Probate Court records, Mary Kantorowski and her husband, John, agreed to transfer the house to a trust administered by Peter Kantorowski on the condition that Mary would live there until her death, and upon her death, the house would go to Peter and his younger brother, Jack, the newspaper reports. In July 2005, however, Peter Kantorowski quitclaimed the house from that trust to another he and his wife control, giving him ownership of the house. Six years later, in Dec. 13, 2011, his mother's 98th birthday, Peter Kantorowski had his mother served with eviction papers.

Sounds to me like self-dealing and breach of fiduciary duty by the trustee [son]. I bet Mom has a good case to undo the conveyance to the second trust, and maybe to remove Sonny as a beneficiary of the first trust.

15 posted on 02/17/2012 9:22:55 AM PST by Huntress ("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy." --Walter Williams)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Just glad his name isn’t Norman.


16 posted on 02/17/2012 9:23:30 AM PST by surfer (To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
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To: rawhide

It sound to me like he could be guilty of elderly abuse since he talk them into the trust then behind her back transferred it and at the same time used her money.He should be send to jail for this.


17 posted on 02/17/2012 9:24:02 AM PST by chris_bdba
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To: rawhide

If he has children, they have a role model on how to treat parents when they get in the way.


18 posted on 02/17/2012 9:29:06 AM PST by AU72
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Sorry...Mom should be willing to go into an apartment. The idea that she's living in a $300,000 home is just plain selfish in these times.

We had a lady (age 90) here in town who did the right thing....gave the main house to her gandchildren and she lives in the tensant house. Was stunned...but she just wanted it to pass to the ones that needed it the most. An extraordinary woman!!

19 posted on 02/17/2012 9:32:13 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Springman

I saw this on the local news but didn’t realize it was a local story.


20 posted on 02/17/2012 9:32:20 AM PST by McGruff (Think in bold colors not pale pastels.)
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