The House My Parents Used to Secure $418,650 in Debt Was Legally Mine
The investigator turned the deed toward me. Years earlier, my grandmother had transferred the Boise property into an estate plan that gave my parents the right to live there but named me as the eventual owner. After she died, the recorded documents remained in place. Dad could live in the house, maintain it, and pay the expenses, but he could not simply use my ownership interest as collateral. The supposed power of attorney bearing my forged signature was what lenders had been shown when several of those accounts were opened.
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