Question: My husband’s parents have a life estate….father passed away, mother recently moved to a nursing home. Siblings want to sell house. Is this possible without the life use [...]

Question: My dad who is 81 years old has been ill for the entire summer, I want to try to get him in a position to qualify for MassHealth in the future. He owns a condo that is in a life estate [...]

Question: My mother-in-law lives on her own but requires my wife to visit regularly to help her with paying bills, groceries, medication, etc. She is on Medicare with Medicaid picking up some [...]

Question: I live in Tennessee where my mother-in-law recently passed away. She had six children. In her will, she left one son her home in a life estate. She did not file a deed. Under the terms [...]

Question: My mom has a life estate. She may have to go into a nursing home. I need to sell her home. I have P.O.A.  My brother and I are also on the deed and my brother has passed away.The bank [...]

Question: I just want to confirm my understanding: I had a life estate on my mother’s home (in Alabama) since she purchased the property in 2017. She has now passed, and the value of the [...]

Question: I am a remainderman with five others of property held in a life estate. The life estate holder is asking for reimbursement from the remaindermen for expenses paid for the house. I [...]

Question: Is a life estate vested and effective if it’s created in a will which also requires the sale of the property (presumably terminating the life estate) and division of proceeds [...]

Question: My husband and I are both in our mid sixties and his son suggested that we build a house on his property and offered to give my husband a life estate in the property. If my husband dies [...]

Question: I have a question about my mother’s two-family house. It’s amazing that she has survived the pandemic and will be turning 104 in September. She is in a nursing home and is covered [...]