Under Washington intestacy laws (which govern in the absence of a will), your surviving spouse inherits all of your community property and half of your separate property if you have surviving children.

Your situation is somewhat complicated. The first question is who inherited her previous... View More

How about you just don’t pay them?

Did you recently pay off your mortgage or refinance? That is the document the bank files to release their lien on the property.

From the information provided, it does not seem like the LLCs are doing anything. Ideally, you would want the LLC to own the rental property, to be the landlord in the lease, and to be depositing the rent into the LLC account.

It would be very hard to answer this question without knowing more about what his basis is for claiming he owns 50%. Regardless of the strength of his claim, he can certainly try to assert he is entitled to 50%.

There is not enough information provided to really answer this question, I would recommend speaking to a probate attorney. They are going to need to know at least whether there was a probate, who the personal representative was, whether this creditor was known or notified of probate, whether there... View More

The best course to resolve these issues (i.e. transfer of real property and efficacy of lien) is to use the probate process. Depending on whether he was married at death, his spouse or an interested party may open probate by seeking appointment as the "Personal Representative" (executor)... View More

Probably not. The only way I can think of would be if they conveyed some real property interest in the house to you during their lives. This could be a lease agreement (written) or a term of years or a life estate or several other types of interest. Other than a lease, these other arrangements... View More

Actually, from what you've said, it appears you breached the contract to purchase the home. The Sellers appear to have been ready, willing, and able to close the sale at the appointed time, while you failed to do your part. There was no requirement that the Sellers agree to an extension of... View More

Legally, yes; marijuana is still a controlled substance. And paraphernalia can be just about anything used to ingest or store drugs (the definition is: all equipment, products, and materials of any kind which are used, intended for use, or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating,... View More

As long as the power company gets paid, they'll turn on the power.

The house stays in grandpa's name until it's foreclosed on and the bank owns it or someone probates his estate and sells or transfers it.

The grandson needs to go see a lawyer about his options if the... View More

A land patent is the highest proof of title over land. It is extremely authoritative. With that said, the laws of the jurisdiction will dictate your ability to use and develop the property. Ownership is only a piece of the puzzle. Your rights to improve the property are still subject to Oregon law.

I think you mean they signed 'quit claim' deeds. Regardless, if the house was left in a will or otherwise did not pass directly to you, you will need to have the executor / personal representative assign the house (and the mortgage) to you (or to all the siblings -- however the will is... View More

Your rights are probably limited to gathering your things and going peaceably or risk being forcibly removed. Your attempt to establish ownership by adverse possession will probably fail, because the period for which you must actually, openly, notoriously, continuously occupy the property against... View More

You need to contact a local bankruptcy attorney and schedule a consultation as soon as possible. If you are facing foreclosure and if it is appropriate you want to file the bankruptcy before the foreclosure sale. Once the foreclosure sale takes place your options will be limited if not gone... View More

It's a hardline rule, 1 year 364 days doesn't work. It's also more complicated than just 2 of 5, there's 5 steps that can be found at https://www.irs.gov/publications/p523/ar02.html#en_US_2015_publink10008937. IRS Pub 523.

The state law governing adverse possession is at RCW 7.38 (http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=7.28&full=true). Generally, to make such a claim they must have been actually possessing the land in an open, notorious fashion, in good faith, under a claim of right for a period of 7 years,... View More

You have placed your question in Washington law, but it appears that it really should be in North Dakota law.

Sure, by all means seek another opinion. It doesn't hurt to ask.

You perhaps could sue; ask an attorney in your jurisdiction. But I suspect a locksmith would be a lot cheaper.

Why not ask them? By my calculations, 5% of $350 K is $70 K.

And it you believe what they are asking is too high, shop around.