A little more complicated. Assuming the house was held by your grandparents as husband and wife, you need to make an estate for the second to die, and then have your mother be conveyed the house as next of kin. If she has siblings, they need to sign off.

A corporate resolution authorizing signature on whatever needs to be signed.

While you can file a criminal complaint against the scammer, as to you and the bank, you will owe this money.

A ponzi scheme is a crime. You must make a complaint to the DA.

Your sister very much has a claim. Given a lawyer was involved, this was very sloppy all around. An interest in real estate can only be altered with a writing. You have none. The mortgage remains of record.

It is legal. In fact, without you undertaking expensive and likely unsuccessful litigation, it is the way it is supposed to be. The recorded documents say what they say.

Yes. And, get an extension in writing from the lawyer for answering the case. You do not want to default.

You have it in reverse. Unless there is a contract preventing solicitation by you, you can solicit. It may be the employee that has a contract that prevents solicitation. You should win the case.

Yes and no. It applies State law if the claim is not final in State court. If it has been made final in state court, then the bankruptcy court must honor the state court judgment. There are bankruptcy options to modify, etc., even if there is a judgment.

It depends on your agreement, which it appears in itself might be hard to prove.

I am not sure of the chain of title or why the deed was void. Obviously, there is something you must do now, but there are not enough facts here to know.

Your case is governed by Canadian law and your contract there. There is no American court remedy.

If these are wholly owned by you, you should be able to just change the membership agreement. If you are doing this to avoid creditors, it could be a fraudulent conveyance. Also, depending on how you carry the books, there may be tax consequences.

You can sue Citibank but the success of the suit will turn on the facts of what happened.

If there is not consent to release the money, you are going to have to bring a lawsuit. If the deposit is $10,000, it can be small claims. Name the lawyer holding the money, and the buyers. You do not need a lawyer.

This is bread and butter work. You are posting on the NY board. I am admitted in NJ and NY. However, if you just call a local lawyer near the property (which you can find on this site or Google), it would be fine. Do not sweat it. Once you hire the lawyer, attorney review can be extended by... Read more »

You can sue for a refund. Since it is in NYC and under $10,000 it is small claims. You can do it yourself. Go to the Civil Court at 141 Livingston Street and go to the Small Claims clerk.

Depends on what your deal was, and what an accounting would show. Very hard for $10,000 to make something happen here. You can sue, but it would cost a high percentage of the recovery unless others joined. For $10,000 you can do a small claims case in NYC, and see if anything shakes out.

You should not sign. Sounds like it was an error. There is literally a form for both the residential lease and the commercial store lease. I think maybe she just sent the wrong one.

I agree with Mr. Nelson as to why you are a defendant in this case, and what will result. However, as a matter of law, you cannot just record liens on property because you think you are owed money. Thus, I am not sure what you did, and how you did it. The problem is that there is a statute of... Read more »