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What is my legal rights for a person live in their car stored at my house more than 6 months? Shut up

Answered 5 years ago by attorney Terry Lynn Garrett   |   1 Answer
Terry Lynn Garrett
Please try to contact the person's agent under a Durable Power of Attorney, guardian, conservator or family member and explain the situation.  Ordinarily, an item left on someone's property for more than 30 days is deemed abandonned.  As your description indicates, this person may not know where the car is, or even that there is a car.... Read Answer
Please try to contact the person's agent under a Durable Power of Attorney, guardian, conservator or family member and explain the situation. ... Read Answer

Should a lawyer that has questioned a client's competency then allow the client to sign legal documents granting the lawyer temporary guardianship.

Answered 5 years and 8 months ago by attorney Terry Lynn Garrett   |   1 Answer
Terry Lynn Garrett
Only a court can award guardianship. Ask your mother to sign a limited waiver, allowing the lawyer to disclose information to you even though your mother, not you, is the client. If you are not satisfied with the responses, know that you can file a grievance with the state bar and, if the lawyer is taking advantage of your mother, report him to APS. If the lawyer is your mother's friend, the lawyer may get to the hospital before you do and so be a reasonable choice for your mother's agent under a Medical Power of Attorney.  But there are very narrow and specific circumstances in which a lawyer becoming a client's agent under a Durable Power of Attorney and handling her finances would align with the rules of professional responsibility.... Read Answer
Only a court can award guardianship. Ask your mother to sign a limited waiver, allowing the lawyer to disclose information to you even though your... Read Answer

If my dad ask me to be gis care taker ayear later my mom died my brother got pooaa of my dad beforee she was buried and has locked me out took my dad

Answered 6 years and 2 months ago by attorney Terry Lynn Garrett   |   1 Answer
Terry Lynn Garrett
The authority of an agent under a Durable Power of Attorney ends when the person granting it dies. The executor or administrator of a person's estate has the duty to collect the assets, pay the debts and distribute what remains to the beneficiaries under the Will or, if there is no Will, the heirs under the state's laws of heirship.  This could include evicting anyone in the home so that it can be sold.... Read Answer
The authority of an agent under a Durable Power of Attorney ends when the person granting it dies. The executor or administrator of a person's... Read Answer

I stole from my elderly mother in law three years ago. I have been paying her back every month. She passed away two months ago. What can happen?

Answered 6 years and 2 months ago by attorney Terry Lynn Garrett   |   1 Answer
Terry Lynn Garrett
You owe the estate, not your ex.  Pay the estate in care of the sister who is settling the estate. 
You owe the estate, not your ex.  Pay the estate in care of the sister who is settling the estate. 

I caught my nephew's wife in my home.after I left the property that same week and after I got sisuated I discovered that she stolde all my silver coi

Answered 6 years and 10 months ago by attorney Terry Lynn Garrett   |   1 Answer
Terry Lynn Garrett
Contact the police and Adult Protective Services.
Contact the police and Adult Protective Services.
Elder Law
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