Q: If my mother was left property but passed before she gained ownership of the property who dose it belong to now?
Property was my grandparents,left to my mother,sold in a tax sale for pass due property taxes while in a lengthy probate case on all property of my grandparents and then she passed before claiming the property who now has the rights to claim the property also she had no will and I was adopted by my grandfather?
A:
I am assuming the property is in Alabama. The right to redeem on the property goes to the person who holds a mortgage on the property or to the person who owned the property at the time the tax sale was held. If that person has died, then the right devolves to the person's heirs at law. You would have had to be adopted by the owner of the property to have any right as an heir of the property owner. A critical question is this: who is in possession of the property now, and when did all of this happen?
You need to get a lawyer to explain this to you. Find someone in or near the place where the property is located.
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