Hi,
This is a little complicated, and I wonder if it's completely above board.
I am an only child and am estranged from my mother, my father died some years ago.
My mother was living in a flat with a garage which she rented out to someone whom she had never met before to store a car.
Over time, she has made a will naming him as her next of kin, and he has control over her financial affairs. She has also left him money.
About 2 years ago, he contacted me and told me that he would ensure that any property of mine still in her possession would both be returned to me and excluded from any will. He contacted me again when she was apparently drawing up a new will, on her instructions to ask me if I wanted certain items. Some of them have sentimental value, some none whatsoever. Time will tell if I receive any of them, and I'm not holding my breath.
Last year, he told me that she was no longer able to live in her flat (she had used this to secure an income under a reversionary policy) and had gone into a nursing home. He then told me that except for a few possessions that she had taken with her, and some others stored at his house, presumably following her instructions, all other goods had been disposed of at auction.
She is using a firm of solicitors who, over 50 years ago, may have turned a blind eye to a property transfer she affected to defraud her brother and sister. So, I'm a little concerned as to what may have happened to any of my property that was still there. When I reminded him that he had promised to let me know before he disposed of anything, he blamed the lack of contact of his 'absent-mindedness'.
Does this situation sound reasonable? Or does it ring warning bells?
I live in sw France, and all this is happening in NW England, so I've never met this tenant.
What do any legal lurkers think?
Thanks in advance
tb
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Power of attorney given to tenant - ok or not?
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tb · 28/02/2011 20:12
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