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Calling a lawyer on my mom (life insurance wills)?

This sounds like a stupid joke but i'm being serious.

My dad passed away 2007 and left me with about 200,000$, and equal amounts to my sister and my mother from life insurance.

When I received the money my mom said it'd be best to keep the money under her bank account so I could apply for financial aid in college later on. I was naive so I let her have it under the idea that she would return it after I finished college.

It turns out she spent it all on stock investments and lost it all with no chance of getting it back. I'm closing any joint bank accounts with my mother but I also know that she has some stock shares left.

I want to seize her stock shares, since that money was entitled to me, but I don't know how I should go about doing that or if I could even do that.

Update:

I discussed this with her but she says that's not my money and denying it. I don't know what life insurance company my dad had.

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  • 9 years ago
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    You need to talk to a lawyer

  • 9 years ago

    So this happened about 5 years ago and your asking about it now? Sorry you'll never get it back. It was in a joint account. Unless there was something in writing not to touch it then she could do anything she wanted with the money. In all accounts it was her money just as it was yours. She got at it first. $400,000 is a lot of money to blow on bad investments. =(

  • 5 years ago

    Do you have a case? in all probability no longer. yet once you have been speaking to a guy or woman on the telephone, there's a mystical word that maximum folk don't comprehend. only utter this as quickly as, and issues get achieved, it is marvelous. Now repeat after me: permit me communicate on your supervisor, please. call them returned, and lay out the case. in the event that they have not got self assurance you, use those magic words. *poof* human beings develop into extra useful. in case you certainly get to speak to a supervisor, lay out the case to him, he/she'll be a lot extra receptive. you have have been given to understand, those human beings (sequence companies) communicate with borrowers on a daily basis, and pay attention countless lies. so that they get cynical and anticipate all and sundry is mendacity. Use your magic words, and that they would comprehend you're severe. sturdy success.

  • 9 years ago

    Yeah, you need to get to a lawyer.

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