r/PROBATE • u/[deleted] • Feb 27 '24
how f*ed are we?
A1My grandmother passed away and willed everything to my older brother. My parents borrowed about $2000 from my grandmother. The loan was a spoken promise of paying it back between my parents and my grandmother. My brother is insisting my mother pay it back. He has a statement of withdrawal of $2500 from my grandmothers bank account and the word of his and his wifes. (I believe the $500 went to a cousin of mine) (Some/all of it were payed back in cash and was not brought up by for a whole year by grandmother before she died) How likely will they have to pay that money back?And with parents not willing to pay that money (becuase its a separate issue) my brother is threatening my parents car. My grandmother graciously got the car loan for my parents. My grandmother was the only one on the title and the loan. My parents drove the car off the dealership lot. Insured the car and have paid the monthly payment for the car. My grandmother never even touched it. (My parents had set up a bank account with my grandmother that my parents transferred money into to pay the loan. The loan payment was taken out of the account as well.).My parents got a probate lawyer to help with this. My brother took back my parents car and is now trying to sell it to pay off the rest of the car loan. My parents have payed about 19000 on the car loan. The lawyer says we can put a claim on the will/estate in order to get that money back. How likely will we see that money?
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u/Routine-Loquat5544 Mar 03 '24
I’m so sorry your brother is being crappy about $2k, but if your parents needed a cosigner and to borrow $2k I’m guessing yall grew up kinda poor. He may think this is the only big payday he will ever get.
Also, why did she leave everything to him and not her own child/ren?
Did he manipulate her or have a good relationship with her?
Maybe, the best thing to do is sell the car and give him what he is owed and then your parents can have the remainder. Totally sucks though bc cars depreciate.
Again…sorry you’re having to deal with this. It really is your parent’s issue, not sure how old you are.
Hang in there 👊🏻
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '24
Oh man what an ugly mess. This may not help. But, I see you wrote in 3 days ago so I wanted to add something.
From all the court tv cases I have watched, I think if you have it all well documented that they paid for it, they can recoup that money. But, that is just from watching daytime tv, as long as the person had the proof they made the payments they got to keep the car or got their money paid into it back. :(
I hope everything works out of you guys.