Looted estate by a new care giver / "wife", property deeded away

[George C.]

Kind of a cautionary tale...

A good friend of mine asked me to look into property that his Grandfather owned, his Grandfather (G/F) just passed. His Grandmother passed less than a year ago, they were married over 55 years. This women who happens to be a certified nurses aid (and might've worked with his wife or him as an aid professionally) approaches G/F and tells him that she's a nurse and can help him out, but to help him with his legal affairs he should marry her... He did marry her, she then added herself to his deeds within two months, two months later she deeds them out of his & her name to a relative of hers in another state for $10 each, G/F dies three months later now with no estate. No cash, jewelry or homes. This was all done in a span of seven months. There are children of the G/f, but they their selves are incapacitated. This mess is left to grandchildren half the country away to deal with. No one has money to hire an attorney to take this woman to court. The Police & the Prosecutors offices both said, " he married her so there's nothing they can do".

G/F was in his 80's, the woman in her late 50's, they never lived together as man and wife, infact she was/is living with a guy.

I found all this out when looking up his deeds for my friend. She herself wrote out all the new deeds in her own hand writing, so she knew exactly what she was doing when it comes to real estate. No one had known what she was up to.

When the G/F died, she rushed to have him cremated, against his wishes. The family feels that she might have poisoned him, why else the rush to cremate against his wishes?

If you have older family out there with any nest egg, even a small one, there are people out there looking to take it, with impunity no less. Check your older relatives deeds, if they are online it usually takes less than five minutes to do.

I can't believe how easy this is for this woman to get away with cheating needy heirs of their inheritance & maybe even murder.

By looting the estate prior to his death, there is no estate to probate, no heirs to deal with through the Surrogate Court system...

Is there a chance that G/F willingly gave everything to her to the exclusion of his needy kids & family? Hell no everyone says.