Legal Question in Real Estate Law in California

You need to get a lawyer and at least start a partition action. Most of these types of cases settle, but if yours does not, at least it will end with you getting your share.

I agree with the prior attorney's answer except I would add a cause of action for quiet title. The title will be resolved based on recorded documents and your father's will. The grant deed to you and your uncle should have been recorded and would then be available at the county recorder.

It will take a while, but the court will force a sale and get you extricated.

I wouldn't expect there to be a grant deed, since you inherited the house. I do agree that a suit for "partition" under California Code of Civil Procedure sections 872 - 874.225 is your best bet. The name "partition" comes from the old-time practice of courts in splitting parcels that were co-owned by heirs, etc. who were unhappy with the situation. In more modern times, an actual physical division is usually impractical or impossible due to urbanization, zoning laws, etc., so nowadays partition is usually done by a court-ordered sale of the property and "partition" of the money received from the sale. The court has the power (and duty) to take into consideration not only the percentage ownerships of the (now former) co-owners, but also to adjust their percentages to take into account other equities such as unequal contributions made to maintenance and improvements, rent collected, and other factors. Importantly, a high percentage of partition suits that get filed result in the once-warring co-owners reaching some kind of privately-negotiated settlement in which either one buys out the other or they agree to list and sell the property before the court action gets very far. When the reluctant one sees the inevitable, he/she comes to his/her senses and saves the cost of litigation and the uncertainty of a sale under court supervision.