Q: Quiet title.
My wife is one of four sisters on a family trust. We bought property from her parents through the trust. We paid on it for 5years. I started college in 2008. Her parents had us over for dinner and told us they didn't want us to make anymore payments while I was in college. Then 3years later they repossessed it. When we asked them to let us start paying again they said it was silly for us to pay on her inheritance. Her dad passed several years ago. And at that time we talked to her mom to make sure everything was the same. She had told us several times the property was my wife's inheritance. Her mom passed last month and we are now told her mom made no mention about it in her will, and that we have to sell it to split it four ways.
We. Have made improvements to the property. Do we have a case to file a quiet title? We have lived on this property continuously from 2003 to 2023.
A: Partition Sale is probably the only remedy here. Asking for contribution will most likely be denied.
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