I don't imagine it being very likely to find an expert here, but if there are any, I could use some help.
Last September 9th, about four hours from now, my dad died. I was taking care of him and my 13 year old sister. He was in a hospital bed here at the house. He left everything to me, my brother and our half-sister. I'm the executor of the estate and supposedly have total authority here.
The problem is, when he was making out his will I told him that if his wife (who left him to go live with her boyfriend) wanted to stay here and help take care of my sister, that would be fine with me. My reasoning was that my sister didn't want to go live with her mom and boyfriend so I thought that giving her mom the choice to live here instead would keep her from taking my sister over to shitsville. Well my dad put that in the will; he gave her the right to stay here until my sister turns 18.
The mom has lived here for a year now, she refuses to help pay any bills (she even went and had SS switch my sisters survival benefits over to herself, but I finally got them switched back, I supported both of them for a year out of my personal money and I had to drop out of school to do so), she has friends and family come stay at the house sometimes for weeks at a time without my permission, she's stolen lot's of our stuff (which is next to impossible to prove), she's moved our stuff out and her stuff in, she messes with my food, she takes my clothes out of my washing machine and dryer, she stays here all day long and if she has to leave she has her 22 year old daughter come house-sit for her, she's cost the estate over $7,000 in legal fees which we incurred trying to prevent her from contesting the will and/or trying to find loopholes in the will. There's tons of more stuff but I don't want to sound like I'm nit-picking.
The point is, she's trying to run me out of my house. Making me miserable is her full time job. My lawyer told me that because of the provision in the will which states that she can live here, there's nothing I can do. The magistrate told me the same thing and so did the civil court judge. How can this be true? There has to be a limit to what she can do here, right?
Anyway, if anyone here knows of these matters, please offer any help you can. I'm not going to be on the boards this weekend; me and my brother are going up to the cemetary to visit our dad.
