Q: Delinquent property taxes on a property that is not in my mothers name, can she sue for the property?
My mothers house is on property that is in another family members name, they are out of state. The property taxes have been paid for by my parents for 52 years. Can they go to court to get the section of the property her house sits on and rezoned as residential? The owners of the property have never paid the property taxes, they have the property in name only. My mother has been summoned to court over the unpaid property taxes because she is 83 years old and on a fixed income. For the last 52 years she and my father have paid for HALF of the property taxes, when their home sits on only about 1/8 of the property. Now she is elderly and in fear of losing her home because she hasn't been able to pay for the property taxes on this tract of land that is zoned as commercial. She can't get any tax exemptions because the property is not in her name. What can we do to help her keep her home and the small piece of land it sits on?
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