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Transferring property

Dear Len & Rosie,

My father transferred his ownership of his house to two of my brothers. He wants the profit divided into equal shares among all five children after he dies. My father is still alive and three of his children were out the state at the time during the transferring of the title of the house. My two brothers agree to add three of our names to the deed. I want to know what kind of form to fill out and where to get it. Can we do it ourselves or should we hire an attorney to do it for us?

Cathy

Disinheriting a child

Dear Len & Rosie,

My elderly mother recently passed. I am trustee and only beneficiary of her trust. I have a sister, who I have not seen or heard from in 40 years when she said she hated all of us and never wanted anything to do with us again. She even gave up her five-year-old son for strangers to adopt and would not let my parents adopt him. In the last few years she has visited my mother a few times a year. Now she has retained a lawyer to challenge the trust. Her court petition states that my mother was insane and that I committed elder abuse by forcing her into making this trust, but my mother left her out of the trust because of what she did in regards to their only grandchild and how she treated her and my father.

Bobbie