Q: My grandma is deceased and she donated her house to me. I found out that the deed had her husbands name
Which he died before my grandma. They had 2 homes & 1 home was given to his sisters when he died so my grandma could stay with 1 house. When my grandma died I paid a lawyer in PR and gave her all the documentation with the signatures of the sisters waiving their rights to the 2nd home. Til this day I haven’t received a thing from the lawyer doesn’t answer calls text.
A:
Good morning and thank you for using Justia. You need to visit the office of said attorney. You can also get more information and help finding that attorney by contacting the bar association (Colegio de Abogados) or the Supreme Court.
I doubt it was a donation since she passed away and you had to get signatures from the inheritors. It sounds more like she did an inheritance in life which is not the legal way to do it. What needs to be done is to create an estate by filing a petition in court to establish who the inheritors are and then have them donate the property to you. Ask the inheritors if the estate has been created (declaratoria de herederos) for the title owners. In Puerto Rico even if that property ws in your grandfathers name your grandmother is also a title holder so two estates need to be created. You cqn also searh the web under the Puerto Rico Supreme Court and then enter case consulting (consulta caso) put in thier names and this will search the courts to verify if the estates were created. If no return is found then the estates have not been created and you will need to either find that attorney whom you already paid or hire a new attorney to do the job right. Good luck.
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