Has anyone had any issues with crooked Notaires? I know, they’re all crooked. So is the crooked little public servant and curator in vacant estates.
Sorry, this is long, but 60 years of conspiracy and fraud to learn court papers were signed but never went to the Tribunal.
My family is of French origin, 3 sisters. The middle, my mom and the youngest, both marrie GI’s and relocated to the USA in the very late 1950’s. The oldest stayed behind to be the good daughter.
My grandfather died suddenly, in testate, at 56 in 1965. The oldest daughter manipulated my grandmother into doing a French Donation where she prepaid Succession taxes. My megalomaniac aunt also saw to it she got the lion’s share of property.
As the decades peeled off, suspicious things happened, but we were 3,300 miles away, plane tickets very expensive for a long time. The youngest daughter had 2 children, the oldest born in 1962 was an anoxious birth and spent his life as a state ward in a state institution.
As it would turn out, the youngest sister would die in 1987. The Notaire at the time told my cousin that because our grandmother, the Usufruit, was still alive, that there was nothing to do. Same story when her father passed in 1994. 14 years later, that Notaire retires and a new one comes in. The new Notaire sends urgent faxes to the daughter requesting death certificates, which she already provide and tells her he needs to do a succession asap.
He adds that since none of the previous Notaires did their jobs and opened a french tutelle, he was giving her a choice between renouncing the inheritance on the brother’s behalf as his legal guardian and he would give her the proceeds of the whole estate, or he would open a french tutelle and manage her brother’s financial affairs. She completed what the Notaire sent her, had it Notarized, got an Apostille and had it regularized at the french Consulate.
Of course he half assed it because while he took the brother off of a lot of titles and tax accounts, he did not take him off of an agricultural property which happens to be the last piece she owns. Having done her parents’ successions, he removed her mother from the cadastre, but not her father or her brother. So the land is titled father, son, daughter.
The land is subject to expropriation. The brother passed away suddenly in 2023. 18 months after his passing, the expropriating parties asked my we didn’t do a Succession. I told them we did one pursuant to SSA POMS and Wisconsin Guardianship Law.
About two weeks later, they retitled the land for the Vacant Estates purposes solely to the brother, claiming her was a resident of France (he’d never set foot there, he died without family or heirs: his sister is his Legal Guardian and titled on the tax rolls, and she’s been paying taxes on the land for 25 years; and he died in Testate – that’s a complicated one because Wisc law and SSA POMS both state whatever is left over $2K when an SSI recipient dies goes to the government.
My question is, has anyone had experience with something similar? I mean has anyone co-owned property with someone who died and had the French Domaine put it in Vacant Estates any way?