My father was blind and needed around the clock help. This women claimed that the purchase was mutual . Yet he had only met her two weeks prior and days after they met this caregiver packed him up and took him to South Carolina where the house was purchased. This woman planned this journey and knowingly took advantage of a newly blind aging desperate disabled man who was simply in fear for his life He died shortly after the purchase of the house . She sued his family to keep the house then She sold the house immediately a She knew he was vulnerable and did it for her own financial gain! The family did not find out til after the fact and was extremely upset one member posted some truths of her in regards to her abusing and taking advantage of a rich broken blind man. Now she is trying to sue for slander and defamation? Can someone please help?
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My husband and I bought our home in 21 days, we saw it, made an offer, found financing and moved in 21 days later, 2 hours after the sellers moved out, just long enough to have the house cleaned.
This time would have been greatly reduced if we had cash.
Obviously there are holes in how all of this went down, but if this "caregiver" was looking for a victim the odds of the house seller being involved are good. Waiving home inspections and appraisal can cut a week or more from the process.
Hopefully the original poster will take a deep breath and answer some questions.
Second, how did the care giver get the money for the property? Check? Wire? There is a paper trail. How was this done? Online? If so, did he know how to operate the net or what? If he were blind, I doubt he could perform a wire transfer. If he couldn't, who helped him? Was it in person at a bank? Banker would have to speak to the owner of the account and give permission and then send/authorize the wire. Or if it were a written paper check for someone legally blind? Who signed it? Who wrote it out?
Why did she, care taker, sue the family if she had fraudulently gained the property? Where was a lawyer for that? Also, you can't sue someone and sell the item in question at the same time... No. And yet it's claimed the family just found out? AFTER all this other allegations? As for her suing... Unless she won the house in a court of law, and it was legally declared hers, then slander may be the next round. But if it's not, you can't win that kind of lawsuit based on truth exposed.
So, what do we have here? Is it a legit question/actions? Sounds like some fancy legal footsteps are needed if this is a legit deal, but this doesn't sound like all the details are here or sequence is way off. Poster, please clarify.
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first...no way caregiver and Dad did a purchase in two weeks...and then to claim it was then sold immediately?
That is just bunk! No way 2 closings happen that fast.
whatever the real story might be ... it isn’t being told here
That has to be the craziest thing I have ever heard of.
If she wasn’t power of attorney there is no way to make purchases like that.
Call the bank or company that gave her the money and go crazy and fight them for authorization without proper consent. What identification did she peruse.
There are many lawyers out there for the elderly that will fight and get paid only if they win.
im so very sorry that happened to you. Get her arrested.
Prayers to you. Just terrible!!!!!!!
I’m not sure what’s going on so hopefully the original poster will reply with more info so that members here can offer advice.
Nextly, the time to press charges for elder fraud is right away, when it happens. There are no details here to help us. We can't know if this gentleman was demented or not. Cannot know if it was not, indeed his intention to go on a wonderful road trip at the end of his life, and to buy this woman a home. And apparently the family were not close enough to even understand any of this was happening at the time. The trip. The purchase. The subsequent sale. It was all discovered long after the fact?
I am certain there must be more details somewhere?
My first move on my part in a situation such as this would be an investigation of this person by "Private Eye"; they can do amazing work online, and quite easily. There may be a history here. This all sounds like it would make a movie.
We do need to be very very careful of what we put into writing, or even what we accuse people of verbally. We do leave ourselves open to suit. A friend of mine recently won 100,000 from the insurance company of a madwoman who slandered him on a facebook post.
I surely don't have the answer here, other than to get a lawyer. I am afraid it is here for us as a warning for our futures. I hope you will update us with more details on this.
Was dad of sound mind? Maybe this person has a history of doing such things? Have you contacted the district attorney? If there is a history, you may not need to retain an attorney. The DA, I would think, would be very happy to go after this. So many resources at their disposal.