Q: Elderly parents, stepmother diagnosed with dementia and father had health issues. When it became too much for them alone
They were going to move to assisted living but she declined rapidly and had to be moved to memory care. She was on Medicaid. As her POA my father had to take her name off house & car & separate bank acct. He added me to his bank acct(with rights of survivorship) and made me his beneficiary of life insurance. My father passed in Dec and stepmother 15 days later-now the step brother is saying I stole everything and he wants it all as it should've went to his mother.
We followed everything Medicaid said we had to do....they owned no real estate and he actually sold their home and car before he passed.
My father did not want anything going to my step brothers, never wrote it down but said it many times to my other siblings and myself over the past few years. No will.
Do the stepbrothers have any legal standing against me?
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