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Proven Forged Will

My mother-in-law died in June 2006. She did not have a Will but stated several times to many people that she wanted her house sold and split 1/3rd equally among her 3 children. She stated this to all of her family members; her former co-workers; her friends; the doctors at the hospital and the Counselors at the Hospice. The notes of the Counselors at the hospice clearly state that she said she needed to prepare a Will. Approximately 3 weeks after her burial a Will is mysteriously created and mailed from another state by her estranged brother who she had not communicated with in about 5 years until approximately 2 weeks or less prior to her death when he arrived in my mother-in-law's home state after his niece called to tell him that his sister was sick. An Expert Handwriting Specialist examined several documents signed by my mother-in-law within the past 20+ years found the signature on the Will to be forged and NOT that of my mother-in-law. Since this finding, her daughter has since preceded to file the forged document with the state's Registrar of Wills and also has since had the name changed on my mother-in-laws property to her own name and has taken out 2 large equity loans totaling $310k within the past year.

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