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!!
A $300,000 house in Connecticut could be a very small house, indeed, especially if it is in an historic part of town, since she is so long-lived. There are tiny cottages in Georgetown (DC) and Society Hill (Philadelphia) that once housed slaves or servants that are now worth $1,000,000, simply because of their location.
Why should anyone strip her of her rightful property, just because she is old? The article says she was examined on order of the judge and found competent.
A cape cod isn’t exacty a baronial manor. I think she should stay as long as she wants to. This is still America.
Sorry. The elderly individual makes that choice; not the collective majority through the government (as in England) and surely not a greedy, dishonest relative as in the case of the man in this story.
There should not be pressure from greedy family members to take the elders’ property or life before they are naturally in the grave. Some elders don’t leave their estates to their children and grand children.
If I had a psychopath in the family who expressed a sick and twisted attitude of entitlement with me and my property in my old age, she would not be in the will and she would not have any involvement in my life as I may become too weak to fend off her greed.
I kept looking for the sarc tag on your post. Are you freakin’ kidding me? The lady is well, is living in her own home and paying her own expenses. She’s got a piece of crap for a son. Why should she leave HER home because this guy wants the money.
He’s probably hoping that he’ll just break her heart and she’ll die faster. My mom was 83 when she passed away and we swore she’d never, ever be in a home. She wasn’t. I wish I had her as long as this piece of garbage has had his mother.
LOL!
Oh wait, you’re serious?
A Cape Cod house is not huge. Our current home (which we are renting until we buy this summer) was built in 1950, and is a Cape Cod style. If you subtract the master bedroom suite and the living room/bathroom that were added on in later years (70s and 80s), it originally consisted of 2 bedrooms downstairs, a formal dining room, a kitchen, two dormer rooms upstairs, and one bathroom—and none of the 4 original bedrooms were overly big. The house as originally built would have been tiny for our family of six. Assuming that this woman’s house is pretty much the same size as it was when it was built, it probably isn’t the Taj Majal (sp?).
If someone wants to downsize and give their home to a family member, more power to them. This woman likes where she is and she should stay there.
My in-laws (who have no children at home any more) have a five bedroom, three bathroom home on 14.5 acres in Indiana. Tell them they need to give it up for the greater good. They worked their whole lives for that dream.