My elderly father was in the care of my older brother during this time my elderly father was severely neglected, abandoned, abused along with financial abuse! My elderly father is now deceased before he died he and I started a legal battle against my brother trying to get my father’s assets back and bring my brother to justice. My brother abused and threaten my father causing my father so much fear that my father had PTSD and severe night terrors. We were able to get a temporary restraining order to protect my father through the Ventura county district attorney and they suggested my father make me his POA and go after my brother in court to demand him to hand over all my father’s assets my brother refused and reported me to APS and claimed that my father had dementia and that I was coercing my father .a few days Pryor to our court date unfortunately my father passed away .after that everything stopped then Covid started closing everything especially the court houses . While Covid was going on my brother found a lawyer and forged a will in Canada leaving himself everything. Since then I have struggled as to what to do? Time has passed making it more difficult to find help plus I’m disabled and have limited means and can’t afford a lawyer. What can I do to bring justice to this situation? Please any info will help. Thank you 🙏
Since you don't have the money to prove Dad was wronged, I think u need to just let it go. No lawyer is going to take on this case. Your Dad is gone. His money is gone. You need to be at peace with that.
Now we are down to a purported forged will. Here, if you have kept records, you would have some standing in that your brother himself has filed things claiming your father suffered dementia. That would mean by that date your brother HIMSELF proclaimed your father incapable of making a legal designation.
The problem you have is that a case of this type is VERY EXPENSIVE with much legal ferreting out of the facts, and it requires a paper trail tracker, and hours of legal time. No attorney is going to give you free hours and hours and hours, so you are down to an attorney who SEES YOUR EVIDENCE, believes it to be SOLID, and who can make a ton of money from his work by taking your case on contingency.
I hope this makes clear the problem. But long and short is that no attorney does charity work requiring hours and hours of his time for free. You have no money to pay other than money you are attempting to retrieve from your Dad's estate. So we are down to hoping
A) Dad had a huge estate and a ton of money
B) You have excellent records of proof
C) You find a hungry attorney willing to gamble and invest hours of his time.
All those givens are a tough "bar to reach". I sure do wish you good luck. I am so sorry. And it may be best now to cut losses and move on with your life. This is a tragedy you may need to put in your past. Again, I am so sorry.
Just a question, when APS came into the picture, did you not call the District Attorney to vouch for you. I would think a call from a DA explaining what was going on would have stopped the investigation of APS.