I recently inherited 1/3 of my father estate...I have 2 sisters that share in this estate. One of the sisters?
won't pay her 1/3 of the funeral cost of burial for our father. We have already received over 10,000.00 each, more than enough to pay our parts..she still won't pay. Today I refused to sell the two houses he owns until she pays the funeral cost. Can someone out there tell me can I refuse to sell my part of the houses and is this legal?? There is no way they can sell without my permission, is there?? I don't know why she won't just do the the right thing. PLEASE HELP? I need legal advice and quick...THis sister is vicious and greedy when it comes to money. I swear she would take money off a dead person... This sister goes straight for the throat, if a person won't agree with her..She's always right...in her own mind. Please help if you can...
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It's too bad your sister is a greedy person. But I am surprised that the funeral expenses were not taken care of by your father's estate before it was disbursed.
I don't think you have to sign to sell your fathers house if you don't want to. Maybe your sister will get so mad her head will explode and you won't have to worry about it.
Your father should have had a lawyer handling his estate. The lawyer would be the best resource for this question. You are going to get answers from people all over the world, but laws concerning this kind of thing are different all over.
no one can sell the house with out the other two signing. and you dont have to pay the whole funeral bill. it can get nasty and go court but they can make her pay her part. you dont have to sell if you dont want to unless it was in the deed. if it was in the deed all you have to.
how about a compromise here..sell the houses and BEFORE she gets her share the 1/3 cost due from her for the funeral is paid other wise she gets NOTHING from the sale, think with it already going a bit pear shape it might be better to have an advisor handle matters and YEP all 3 of you chip and pay for him...if she gets snotty at this tell her IF she was not such a snit about everything then this would have been avoided...
sorry about your loss though.
regards
I am not a lawyer, but the executor of the estate may have goofed. Many wills provide that all outstanding obligations of the deceased should be paid first. That includes funeral expenses. Then specific bequests are honored. If someone with delusions of grandeur and $200 in the bank were to leave a million dollars to each of his children, they would not inherit a million dollars. They would just get what was left.
The easiest way to settle an estate is to sell everything that wasn't left specifically to an individual and then divvy up the money. If someone thinks something like a house should not be sold, an appraiser would be hired to evaluate the house, and those who didn't want to sell would have to buy out those who did based on the appraisal.
Appraisers aren't cheap, and lawyers are expensive. You may do better in the long run to tell your sister that you will pay for the funeral and that you forgive her. It's unlikely she'll change at this stage in life.
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