Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Pennsylvania
While my father was still alive he transfered property into my name. After the fact he then set up a mortgage that he wasn't going to trun in to the county, it was just a legal document between the two of us. In the mean time, before the property was transfered, my father had a smoke test done on the sewer line(mandatory in my munic.)The line failed. It is the owners responsability to fix before transfer.I didn't find out about this until after the property was transfered and I had to pay $11k for the line. In the middle of all this my father passed away. My setp mother turned the mortgage into the county(7months after the mortgage started). Now the estate will not re emburse me for the sewer line. I had paid the previous years taxes(before it was in my name and I wasn't living there) they won't pay me back for that, and the estate attorney wants to deduct the amount owed from my share of the estate (split 5 ways) Also, if the deed is still in my name why would he (the estate attorney) want to prepare a deed from the estate in my name? Help! I really feel like I'm being taken advantage of!
1 Answer from Attorneys
Actually, it sounds like your father and you and your step mother were trying to take advantage of lots of different things.
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