#FamilyDrama: Can my mom’s ex-husband stake a claim in her home? 🏠 Let me paint you a picture – Mom, Dad, and the house in California since ’79. Two divorces, one remarriage, and one ex-husband moving back in. Now, he’s sick, his sons are pointing fingers, and my mom’s house is on the line! 🤯 With no common law marriage, does he really have a case? 💸🤔 Share your thoughts and legal insights! #PropertyRights #CaliforniaLaw #FamilyFeud #LegalAdvice 🤷♀️💼🔍
Is he on the deed?
No, he has no property rights, he’s a tenant.
If they won’t take care of him he can go to full care nursing, Medicare will pay or whatever assets he does have may be used to pay. Regardless, this is not your problem.
Get your mom an attorney if they sue.
Your mom can start the formal eviction process, and you can contact adult protective services to see what is available for him. If he is evicted, his sons should hopefully come get him or at least arrange something.
Would your mom take him to the ER?
It’s not making him homeless. It’s refusing to be his caretaker.
Hospital will call his POA and depending on his capabilities not discharge him because he can’t care for himself. Sons or care coordinator will have to find a nursing home placement.
You can also call adult protect services. Tell nurse or social worker at the hospital that his POA cut off access to funds so he has no access to pay for food.
Then step back and leave the hospital. This will make the sons very angry and likely will cut off your mom from any updates. Your mom has no legal rights to her ex’s medical information.
Other avenue is filing for eviction.
Have your mom drop him off at the hospital. Tell them she is no longer able to care for him. The case manager will find a long-term care facility for him.
No. Not at all.
Bill has rights as a tenant, but not the owner. It may be a good time to get the utilities out of his name though.
Let them sue. But it will probably start off as a letter from a lawyer. Get a lawyer and have them respond. Get a copy of the deed and your mom’s divorce decree to have on hand. In all likelihood, their lawyer will back off when they realize that there is nothing to this claim.
Get a social worker involved for him to sort this out given that his kids are dropping him like a hot potato. He likely can qualify for low income benefits (or even VA benefits if he served) and can move into a nursing facility.
I mean they can sue. But that doesn’t mean they will get anything except wasting everyone else’s time
I would call for an ambulance for him and once he’s at the hospital tell the social worker that your Mother can not physically or emotionally care for him anymore. The hospital will find a nursing home to get him in. The nursing home will take his 20,000 but that’s not your issue.