Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in New Jersey

Assuming that your mother-in-law is not under any undue influence, and is otherwise competent to sign the deed, she is certainly able to change the title to the house however she sees fit, regardless of whatever her current will might say [and she can always change her will to follow what the deed says].

Beneficiaries can and often do contest wills or lifetime gifts. That does not mean they will be successful however. If the lifetime gift is valid, the beneficiaries will not have much to stand on.

Can they file a lawsuit? yes they can. I am the attorney for some very nice people who are currently defending a lawsuit very similar to this. It has cost my clients thousands and thousands of dollars and the end is not yet in sight.

Your Mother In Law needs to plan this carefully with an attorney's assistance, to reduce the chances that the unhappy siblings will pursue a lawsuit after she dies.

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