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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 457792" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I know that it's three years with a lot of things, or at least it used to be. My mother was an invalid when my dad died - they had been living here in Tennessee and we were still in Florida. We moved to Tennessee to take care of my mom since she couldn't live by herself. She really didn't have much, just the house and land in her name and she didn't have a will. My dad died without a will either and it was a real mess. We contacted an attorney to have a will written up for her and while we were there he suggested transferring the house in to my name since we had lived there with the kids for several years and the house was going to me anyway. Had she had a lot of medical bills or had to go into a nursing home, the house would have had to be sold to pay bills if it was still in her name. BUT ... if that happened within three years of transferring the property, it wouldn't be valid. You can't just get sick and then transfer all your property to a relative. About four years later she did get cancer and died after spending several months in a nursing home but we didn't lose the house. Technically I did not 'inherit' the house, ownership was transferred to me four years before she died.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 457792, member: 1883"] I know that it's three years with a lot of things, or at least it used to be. My mother was an invalid when my dad died - they had been living here in Tennessee and we were still in Florida. We moved to Tennessee to take care of my mom since she couldn't live by herself. She really didn't have much, just the house and land in her name and she didn't have a will. My dad died without a will either and it was a real mess. We contacted an attorney to have a will written up for her and while we were there he suggested transferring the house in to my name since we had lived there with the kids for several years and the house was going to me anyway. Had she had a lot of medical bills or had to go into a nursing home, the house would have had to be sold to pay bills if it was still in her name. BUT ... if that happened within three years of transferring the property, it wouldn't be valid. You can't just get sick and then transfer all your property to a relative. About four years later she did get cancer and died after spending several months in a nursing home but we didn't lose the house. Technically I did not 'inherit' the house, ownership was transferred to me four years before she died. [/QUOTE]
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