Hello, my grandmother recently passed away on the 3rd of this month and before she got really sick she had signed the house over to my mother. Her sister who hasn’t done anything for her mother is now suing my mom for the house and I was wondering. Since my grandmother didn’t buy the house, do we have to provide documentation of the people who gave her the house death certificates because they are all dead as well? And we live in Texas
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Crazy Aunt
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FlyingRon
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Your question makes little sense. Help mom find an attorney.
Anyhow, to establish ownership, you have to have a chain of title. There are companies, not coincidentally called title search companies, that will do that research and even sell you insurance warrantying their findings. This insurance is called, wait for it, title insurance. I wouldn't even take property from my sainted aunt without title insurance.
Anyway, I suspect the ownership interest your grandmother had isn't at issue (though the title search will verify that). The issue is how the property was conveyed from grandma to your mother. Grandma was free to do so without regard to the relationship of the recipient, other possible "future heirs", or whether the recipient or others contesting it had "done anything" for the grantor.
The issue is:
1. Did grandma legally convey the property by deed to your mother.
2. Did she do so through some fraud or duress directed at grandma, and grandma was competent to do so at the time
If the property was legally deeded and there was no fraud, duress, or incompetence involved, sister isn't going anywhere with her suit.
Anyhow, to establish ownership, you have to have a chain of title. There are companies, not coincidentally called title search companies, that will do that research and even sell you insurance warrantying their findings. This insurance is called, wait for it, title insurance. I wouldn't even take property from my sainted aunt without title insurance.
Anyway, I suspect the ownership interest your grandmother had isn't at issue (though the title search will verify that). The issue is how the property was conveyed from grandma to your mother. Grandma was free to do so without regard to the relationship of the recipient, other possible "future heirs", or whether the recipient or others contesting it had "done anything" for the grantor.
The issue is:
1. Did grandma legally convey the property by deed to your mother.
2. Did she do so through some fraud or duress directed at grandma, and grandma was competent to do so at the time
If the property was legally deeded and there was no fraud, duress, or incompetence involved, sister isn't going anywhere with her suit.
Hi, are you saying the Title Deed is in your Mom's name now? Then NO your Aunt can not take the House from you both.
The ones who gave her the house, did your Grandmother or they have the Title Deed transferred in her name?
