Legal Question in Real Estate Law in California
My 91 year old father has owned 2 lots back to back. Houses on both. He lives in one and my step sister and her husband in the other and have done for years. They do not have a written lease agreement but they now pay $1000 per month and do the lawns/gardening and general upkeep. When my dad passes, will they have any rights that will stop us from selling the property? She is in the will and will inherit 2/5th's of his net worth. The other 4 of us planned on selling the land/property while she now has said she wants to buy it. Trying to find out what challenges we may face. Thank you!
1 Answer from Attorneys
There will be more problems than you can even imagine if you all don't sit down and figure out now how this is going to work after dad dies. Better yet would be to get this all settled before dad dies, not after. If you wait until after dad dies in order to get this resolved it's going to take years and years to settle and cost so much money.
Good luck.