Appellate Practice Attorney serving New York, NY
No, living in the house gives him no additional rights to ownership after the owner dies. Assuming no major creditors of you sister's estate (which could be you if you claim that you are owed something for the work you did on the house), ownership of the house would pass pursuant to her will. If no will, it would pass by the laws of intestacy. I am not familiar with the Pennsylvania intestacy statutes, but they likely provide that, if there are no surviving children or grandchildren (or parents) it owuld be divided equally between the surviving siblings.
Answered on Sep 15th, 2021 at 11:55 AM