My dad died last night. And I need some legal advice. I have been furloughed since March due to the pandemic so I don’t have any money for a lawyer. But before the advice, I need so share the horrible details.
My parents were married almost 50 years until my mother passed away about four years ago. Shortly after my mother died (about 4 to 6 weeks later) I had dinner with my dad before I moved to Florida. He was telling me about a woman he meet online. I immediately was concerned. He was in mourning and very vulnerable to the scum that lurks online. I told him to be careful. And when he asked me to meet her I declined telling him I was very uncomfortable with that idea and I was moving soon anyway.
My brothers however live in the same suburb where my dad did so they tried to keep an eye on him the best they could. A few months after he meet this woman she moved herself into my dad’s condo and my brothers did the best they could to try and stop it by hiring a lawyer. Either there wasn’t anything that could be done or they picked an awful lawyer.
According to my youngest brother, my dad told him he wanted to break up with this woman before dementia set in, but she was persistent and good at manipulating our dad so they ended up married. Now that he has passed away we want to know how to contest his will and how much time we have to do so. I live in Florida and my brothers live in Michigan where all this happened so I’m not sure if they need to handle this or if there’s anything I can do from Florida?
Honestly, there needs to be laws to protect people from shit like this. I’m so angry that I don’t think the mourning is going to happen until this con artist woman gets what she deserves.
Any advice?
Update: Thank you for all the advice. My brothers have been able to hire a lawyer and hopefully this woman won’t get away with this. I really wanted to help too which is why I wrote the diary in the first place.
And to the people who didn’t read very well what I wrote originally, this woman is a con artist and took advantage of a grieving widower that was starting to suffer from dementia. If you don’t get that, then you don’t belong on this site because liberals care about people getting screwed over.