Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Michigan

My great-grandmother died in Marian Manor Nursing Home in Wayne County, MI in 1972, leaving her three adult grandchildren as her only living heirs. My mother is the eldest of these children. The grandchildren have never seen any copies of either grandparent�s will. When their grandparents died, they were not notified that they were heirs of any properties or money. However later, family friends informed my mother that their great-aunt had "stolen their inheritance". I found some information about the lawyer that handled the sale of their grandmother's home, but he is deceased now. My mother was very poor and had 2 small children when she found out that she might be an heir. She drove to Detroit to see what she could do to reverse what had happened. She doesn�t remember the attorney�s name unfortunately. She says he was the one who told her that her grandfather did have a will that named her now deceased father and all three children in it. Also, that there was $12,000 in a bank account. He said that she would have to either move to Michigan (she lived in Illinois), or find someone to be her Power of Attorney (she wasn�t able to do either) in order to fight her grandmother�s sister who was the POA for the grandmother. This is also the person who put the grandmother in the nursing home for not being of sound mind. I just don�t understand how someone could sell a home for $15,500, clear out a bank account that held at least $12,000 and not to mention a house full of antiques without having to go through an attorney and notify possible heirs. Clearly the proper channels were not followed. Is it too late for anything to be done now?

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