Legal Question in Criminal Law in Massachusetts

We allowed our daughter in law to have her name on our property so she and our son could take a mortgage our for $50k and 9 months later she seperated from our son. When the house was sold 6 months later, she refused to sign the check unless we gave her an additional $10k. In order to have the check deposited and signed by all of us, we agreed over the phone to give her $5k and she stuck with the amount she wanted and held up the check for weeks until we agreed to the $10k. When the check was finally deposited we did not give her anything as she was not owed anythong and in fact recieved the $50k and did not pay it back. Is there anything we can do about this? Thank you, Jean


Asked on 10/21/10, 10:35 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Jonas Jacobson Law Offices of Jonas Jacobson

Is she suing you? I wouldn't want the case if she were. That's a kind of extortion, and after a trial and so forth, she would probably lose.

However, I am not sure what can be done about the $50K. Why did you let them take out the money? What happened during the divorce? What was the agreement between the four of you about the money? These are all important questions.

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Answered on 10/31/10, 1:20 pm


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