Most likely the state where the property is located is where lawsuits would be brought if they are something for personal injury like a trip and fall or something of that nature because the “cause of action” arose in that state.

His charge is child endangerment resulting in injury.

As far as your neighbor goes, I'd be 'super busy' or acquire amnesia or a hand injury from here on.

I definitely believe most people should seriously think it through before painting brick, especially modern brick, because it's largely irreversible.

If your tenant does work for you, that's a lawsuit waiting to happen due to the possibility of the tenant injuring himself or causing injury to someone else.

Setting up an LLC has an up-front cost, additional steps to maintain protections, and requires a separate tax return every year which costs more.Here's the truth: the vast majority of all lawsuits against private Landlords are security deposit disputes or minor injuries that would be easily covered by your standard liability policy.

Then under what cause of the injury or circumstances, would I be responsible for the liability?

All told you may be waiting several years for a decision during which you'll be making payments on the $60k, probably paying for insurance on a house you may or may not own and unable to even enter it and possibly paying the property taxes if mom's estate doesn't pay them to keep it from going to tax sale.Then to add insult to injury, if you lose and mom and her estate get to keep the house free of your deed and your mortgage, you then get to argue about the value of the house when you bought it, because that's your loss under the policy. 

After looking up "Lincoln Military housing litigation" I come up with a situation where a contractor under obligation to provide base housing on behalf of the Navy is in the courts because of "personal injuries and property damage" from MOLD. 

I am amazed at what condition many properties are in that we take over, and wonder how the previous owner escaped without an injury claim.The second risk, albeit a distant second in terms of impact to your financial health, is that the cabin can't be managed properly for you to make any money.