What kind of lawyer do I see for discussing my rights to continue living at my mom's house under squatters rights? I'm 54 and lived here all my life.

As plans go, that's a daft one. Even assuming you can delay being evicted for months or years, how will you pay for the utilities and maintenance and taxes? And how much will you rack up in legal fees? Squat in that house and you will be fighting your brother for years until you end up broke, wrung out and homeless. If what you want is to be rid of them you couldn't come up with a worse idea.

When the time comes, sell the house, divide the proceeds according to your mother's instructions, and then you need never again have anything to do with your brother or his girlfriend unless you want to. Registered as a person with disabilities, too, you should be entitled to good advice and support that will help you set up independently and start a whole new chapter in your life - totally brother-free.

Seriously, don't waste your time and energy on a campaign that can't succeed for you.

Have the two of them just recently been getting on your nerves or something?

Your sister set it up in *whose* will that her one third share in the house would go directly to you? In your mother's? Or in her own?

In either case, you need to look carefully at what terms in what document give you a right to occupy the property for life. If you do indeed have that right, then you probably also have the right to exclude other people. If you're assuming you will have that right because you own the majority share, or at least you own one third and your sister isn't arguing and together you have the majority share, then you will need to be careful. For example, you will need to make sure that your brother cannot, under the terms of the will or any other relevant instrument, force the sale of the house unless you are able to buy his share from him.

I am not aware of any legal remedy that can force one person to be polite and respectful to another person in a private home. You can't just despise this woman on your own initiative?

It’s not a matter of your brother being able to visit or use the house 1/3 of the year, he will own 1/3 of the home as per your mother’s wishes. There is nothing you can do to change that unless he is willing after your mother’s death to have you buy out his 1/3 share of the house for whatever is fair market value. If you don’t have the money to do that, he can force the sale of the home if he wants his money for his 1/3 share. Also, unless your sister has drawn up a formal legal document gifting you her third, then at this point those are only words. And I seriously doubt she can do that on property she doesn’t yet have any ownership of.
My parents set up a very similar will though I practically begged them not to. Today, my father is still living and upon his death I will be tasked with dividing everything be thirds. Not a task I look forward to as I also have uncooperative brothers.

If he so much as touches you, you can call the police for assault and battery and file a restraining order for him not to come within 300 feet of you.
Also call police if he threatens you. Any aggression should be on the record.

Try to see if you can qualify for a low cost attorney due to your disabilities.
Go to the Senior Center in your town. They will have elder attorneys who works for much less than a regular lawyer. Since you are living with your mom, you could qualify using them.

I'm sorry your mother split up the house as she did. I'm not sure that squatters rights still exist like they did in the days of the west. The only way out as I see it would be to buy your brother's third. Anyhow, to split a house up like that sounds to me like it will have to be sold with 2/3rds of the profit going to you and 1/3rd going to your bother. Your bother's girlfriend has no claim on the house because she's only a girlfriend and your mother is still alive. I think that I would still see a lawyer.

Thanks, but don't you still have to deal with your brother getting 1/3 of the house?

What is in mom’s will for equal 1/3 asset division doesn’t matter till she dies.

If be more concerned about your ability to pay your own bills both now & in the future. It sounds like it is mom’s income that is keeping the household totally afloat. Is that right? That house has all sorts of costs which if you can’t afford now totally on your own then it doesn’t matter if you got your 1/3 and your Sisters 1/3 and even your brothers 1/3 after mom’s death as it will go up for tax sale. And you will be homeless. There is little recourse when a property is sold at tax sale.....sheriff dept evicts and puts up a Notice and contents thrown onto street.

It sounds like you could have a special needs Trust done for you and that you possibly could be considered a dependent of your mom’s.
What might be best is for mom to sell her home and use the proceeds to set up the majority of the house sale $ into the SNT for you (should she apply for Medicaid a SNT for a qualified child is ok). And you & mom rent an apt geared towards seniors. When she dies you have the SNT to live on till you are able to qualify for Medicare and regular SS as you are still pretty young at 54.

If you basically have no work history or fica quarters, you might be able to get onto mom’s SS as a disabled qualified dependent. This is speciality SS benefits type of work to figure out. I’d suggest you find an atty that does SS disability cases as the legal starting point to come up with a plan for your & your mom’s future.

Sugarboo - contact your local Legal Aid office. Helping poor people / tenants from being evicted is one of their specialties. They usually don't charge. Start there to get some advice about your rights as a squatter.

Polar - she’s not a squatter. She is a disabled with MS daughter that is companion & caregiver for her 97 yr oldmom, who is the owner of the home.

Red flag alert! Omg NO, No on seeking free legal aid imo!!!
I’d avoid free legal aid totally cause when a site visit is done they are going to likely have to do a immediate referral to APS as the situation looks totally sketch. Mid50’s non working MS disabled female caring for 97 yr old elder with dementia..... it’s not a good visual. If house looks unsafe, medications scattered, Sugar boo goes on even a bit of a rant about the out of state brother & his supposed witch girlfriend, APS is gonna pull someone out of the home. Like mom into the hospital for observation at a minimum. It then becomes a real clusterF. It doesn’t have to look all Grey Gardens for APS to yank mom out, they’d do an observation stay just as an abundance of caution. APS knows Mom has Medicare so a ER/hospital run totally covered. 

To me, Sugar Boo needs to find a disability rights atty that is her atty to come up with a workable plan for her future that also can work for her mom. Not free legal aid clinic.

Oh my, you should understand that your brother can (and probably will) get a judge to order you pay him is 1/3. If you cannot, then you will have to sell it.

You won't be able to deny his right to 1/3... NOT 1/3 time living there...1/3 of the value of the house.

I would realize that fighting him with court and lawyers will leave you both bankrupt AND homeless.