Q: Hi. The person that my Brother is unhappily married to, is threatening to take a share of the property, that we
inherited from our parents, if we don't let her live in the house! She has made it clear that she plans on doing whatever she has to, to get everything she can get from us, she has told him that. If his name wasn't on the title, could she still go after us?
She has posed for years as him, sending us text messages, deleting messages that we have sent him and opening HIS mail. I won't even get into the verbal and psychological abuse she has put on him for years. The last few months, she has been sending us messages, saying that she is worried about his wellness, that she is trying to take care of him and WE are not helping. We now feel that she is setting up for something to happen to him. When we do see him with her permission (she send him to tell us her latest threat), he tells us that she is not of sound mind, she is the stressor and he feels unsafe. He is being guilted to stay with her. It certainly is domestic abuse.
Where can we turn for help? Thank you.
A: It is possible your brother's wife could get his interest in the property upon his death or if he transfers his interest in the property to her. The wife's acts appear to affect him, not you, so any action against the wife would have to be initiated by him.
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