Elder Law Answers
Can I Create a Special Needs Trust in My Will to Benefit My Husband?
I am age 74. Can I create a special needs trust in my will to benefit my husband if he ever needs Medicaid assistance to p...
Read moreCan I Force My Brother to Close Out My Mother's Estate?
- August 13th, 2015
Q
My mother died 13 years ago. My brother has been in charge of her estate. He refuses to put her home up for sale, instead using the estate’s money to pay the upkeep on an empty house for 13 years. What can we do to get this estate settled? Can my brothers and sister do anything?
A
The short answer is that you, your brothers, and your sister need to hire a probate attorney to represent you. That attorney will be able to take a number of steps to force action, depending on all of the facts and the laws and practices in your state. These steps may include actions to force your brother to provide an accounting, to remove him as executor, to charge him for losses to the estate or a partition action to force a sale of the property. Only a local attorney can properly advise you. To find an attorney near you, click here.
Local Elder Law Attorneys in Ashburn, VA
Meet Ron Landsman
(240) *** ****
Learn more
Ron Landsman
Ron M. Landsman, P.A.
Ron M. Landsman has been practicing elder law since 1983, before it was known as elder law, originally with Landsman and Laster, Washington, D.C., then Landsman, Eakes and Laster, also in Arlington, VA, and since 1990 in his own practice in Montgomery County, Maryland. He has been among the most active members of the...
(240) *** ****
Tell us about your legal issue and we will put you in touch with Ron Landsman.
Meet Samantha Fredieu
(703) *** ****
Learn more
Samantha Fredieu
Hale Ball Carlson Baumgartner Murphy PLC
Attorney Samantha Simmons Fredieu is an associate at Hale Ball. Ms. Fredieu graduated magna cum laude from Vermont Law School where she was the symposium editor on the Vermont Law Review, a production editor on the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, and a member of the Moot Court Advisory Board. She has clerked for...
(703) *** ****
Tell us about your legal issue and we will put you in touch with Samantha Fredieu.
Meet Jean Ball
(703) *** ****
Learn more
Jean Ball
Hale Ball Carlson Baumgartner Murphy PLC
Jean Galloway Ball is certified in Elder Law by the National Elder Law Foundation. She is a 1977 honors graduate of the National Law Center, George Washington University, and she did her undergraduate work at the University of California at Berkeley, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1971. She is admitted to practice in Vir...
(703) *** ****
Tell us about your legal issue and we will put you in touch with Jean Ball.
