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November 10, 2007, 2:18 pm PST

Fighting Over Wills

It is one thing for the person to change their will willingly, but when the elderly are intentionally deceived and undue influence is used, then there is a problem. As long as humans walk this earth, there will always be crooks. My husband was promised his rightful 1/2 of the inheritance once his parents passed away, so he was told. My mother-in-law dangled that all his life like a carrot over my husband to jump through her hoops all these years, while she knew all along she lied to us all, especially her own husband. Once my husband's father died, his mother not only took my husband's name off everything, but she also tried to take the family farm that we legally bought and owned back from us with unconscionable lies. In our state no will needs to be filed if there is a surviving spouse and my in-law knew this, especially since I later uncovered her sinister crimes of the past. I found out that she created a fake power of attorney for my husband's grandmother giving her husband power of attorney in which they embezzled all the money for themselves and then tried to put her in a nursing home. I even witnessed her cheating her own siblings after she put her mother in a nursing home and she stole all her tons of old coins, money, and antiques. She stated what her siblings didn't know wouldn't hurt them. Plus when the nursing home lost her mother's teeth, she stated that she could learn to gum her food because her mother's money was all hers (my in-laws) now. Then after she lied and cheated us so badly (her own son who was always there for them - always), she then turned around and embezzled money from her own aunts after she convinced them they couldn't afford to stay in their own homes. She had her aunts own attorney create a new will changing the split between the 2 families from 50-50 to 75-25 favoring hers. The thing is the attorney knew my in-law cheated us and others before, plus he knew his client of many, many years was in a nursing home for almost 2 years with dementia and Altzheimers...yet he drew up a new will for my in-law knowing it was illegal for her to get the aunt to sign it knowing she was incompetent. Later after the aunt's death, the other family contested the will and has since found out that my in-law embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars out of accounts for herself and no one is prosecuting her. They are just trying to find some of the money and have her put it back, plus my in-law wants them to sign a confidentiality agreement so no one will know what a major criminal she is and she can move on to her next targets... How can they let her get away with this (hundreds of thousands of dollars) by embezzlement... because she is old. Everyone says she is old. Well she wasn't old when she created a fake power of attorney and cheated her husband's siblings; she wasn't old when she cheated her siblings; and she wasn't old when she cheated us... They prosecuted Lenora Hemsley, yet my mother-in-law is more ruthless and heartless than she was, yet no one touches her because the attorneys and banks must be as guilty as my in-law for allowing the transactions to occur. We were threatened with our lifes when I uncovered what she did. A bank's attorney told me and one of the cheated relatives that we could be shot, our house could be burnt to the ground, or our well could be poisoned if we didn't drop the investigation into her crimes since they should have never allowed a fake power of attorney to be used.... To me, if attorneys would tell the greedy relatives that it is illegal to do what they request and refused to draw up a will if they know it is going to be used illegally, then a crime can't be committed. My husband's rightful legacy was stolen by his own mother and his father must be mourning now by what his wife of 48 years did to him. Who is standing up for the dead? I tried and I almost ended up dead. If more people don't stand up then there will always be legacy robbers and deceased loved ones mourning in heaven.
 
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November 13, 2007, 2:48 pm PST

Fighting Over Wills

The estate attorney, Scott, that stated 'changing wills is a perfect crime" is so right on the money. It doesn't seem to matter either if a will was changed illegally and that someone could prove that it was changed illegally. In a small town like ours, our relative not only recently used undue influence on her elderly aunts to change a will, she also created a fraudulent power of attorney in which she fraudulently forged her stepmother's signature giving her husband power of attorney to get his stepmother's money. She has been doing things like this for DECADES, including what crimes she pulled on us (her own son).  All her crimes could be PROVEN, yet no attorney in this small town would do a thing to her. We were given the joke of an excuse, "She is too old to prosecute". Bull poop!  If that is true, then let me know the age when one becomes to old to prosecute for criminal, civil, and federal crimes or too old to prosecute for tax evasion and fraud because a lot of other people would be curious to know too. By the attorneys failing to prosecute her for her crimes thus allowing her to continue her criminal path to cheat others, then to me, aren't they just as criminally guilty as her for allowing her to keep stealing legacies?

 

I believe it becomes a perfect crime because there are some ruthless ATTORNEYS out there that help these crooks draw up new wills and tell them exactly what to do to make their crime a perfect crime. If a crime can be specifically proven, but if an attorney won't file a lawsuit for the injured heirs, then that is when it becomes a perfect crime - when the attorney gives aid to the criminal.  I witnessed this over and over again. When cornered my in-law always tries to blame everyone else for her deception and crimes by pointing the blame to someone else like, "Oh the attorney did that" (in regards to filing a fraudulent survey, deed, and documents), or the "bank made the mistake" (when they illegally transferred stock or money for her), or "the tax preparer did that" (when she filed her fraudulent return evading taxes). Come on now! Who INITIATED the transactions and received the gain - she did, the criminal! The problem is there are so-o-o many Stolen Legacies out there because like I said, I believe, there are some attorneys helping these criminals get away with their crimes. If you don't believe me, I can produced enough evidence (with everything in black and white) from decades of her crimes.

 

I cry for these relatives that she robbed and I never knew some of them. They are gone and have no one to speak up for them. If someone doesn't stand up for the "deceased before us" then who will? They can't. These crimes are happening every day to so many innocent people. If these attorneys know that "changing wills is a perfect crime" or that "power of attorneys are a license to steal", then CHANGE THE LAWS. PROTECT OUR LAST RIGHTS and OUR LAST WISHES. We simple folk can't change them. We aren't the lawmakers; attorneys are. We are only the saps that try and depend on the attorneys to do what we pay them for. I tried to stand up for my husband and my husband's loved ones and they about destroyed us and will keep trying to just because I stood up for what is right. I can't get passed this because this is one of my purposes on this earth. It hasn't been much fun. It almost cost us our lifes. It feels like hell, but I can't let it go. I wrote a diary about our encounter with the family criminal in chronological order resulting in over 900 pages, so if your attorney guest, Scott, wants to know what he can do to help, tell him to try and change things for the innocent victims of these criminals who try to get away with the perfect crime with the help of attorneys that helps them MAKE it a perfect crime. It can't be a perfect crime if the attorney simply says, "NO, I can't help you cheat your loved one." As you can tell, I am very adament about doing something to change things for others to prevent them from going through what hell we and others before us went through. Thank you Dr. Phil.  

 
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January 5, 2008, 9:18 am PST

'What's age got to do with it?'

I definitely will watch this show topic. I survived cancer and other things, but after a traumatic brain injury, I feel like I am aging 10 years in a single year. I just turned 50 and feel like the women on the show all rolled into one. When you concentrate on just surviving an illness, a tragedy, and such year after year, it takes a toll on your looks. I have the same long hair, but now much thinner and turning gray and my once natural looking face looks haggard, saggy, and wrinkly. I tried the BriteSmile to perk me up, but instead I ended up with a huge burnt fat lip and my teeth and gums were left sore and my teeth were still dingy. I even tried Retin-A and to me it made my wrinkles worse. Now I have wrinkles around my mouth where I didn't think wrinkles developed and my eyes when I smile look like thin ice cracking when someone steps on it. I look horrendous now. I was borderline osteoporosis in 2005 and after menopause and allergies, I know it didn't help my skin any. So I sure could use some tips since nothing I seem to try helps. I thought about Thermage but don't think it could help the loose skin around my eyes and I don't know what would help the wrinkles, expecially around my mouth. With allergies, I wonder if I would be allergic to injections or if they even work or for how long. I want to cry expecially when I watch television and see all these older stars (some in their 60's and 70's) that have such firm, tight, wrinkleless skin. What are they using or doing? I could stare at Robin all day with her flawless, glowing complexion. I hope she goes over specific beauty regimens to follow or try, expecially the herbal, natural ones. Thank you.

 
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January 23, 2008, 2:19 pm PST

Sense of Entitlement

Dr. Phil hit the nail on the head when he stated that these people who steal have a sense of entitlement as if it is their right to steal since they feel they are entitled to everything they can get - anywhere and anyhow they can get it. We endured hell from a family member who felt she had the right to keep cheating her son (my husband) so many times. She felt he owed her since she had a tough delivery with him 1/2 a century ago. Yet later we discovered she cheated so many other relatives too, so what was her excuse for cheating them? She definitely feels she deserves to cheat who she pleases. Plus when we tried to do something to stop her crimes against us, we were told she was too OLD to prosecute which is totally not right. She also said before that if someone is dumb enough to allow her to cheat them, then they deserve it. If no one does anything to her or makes her accountable for her actions, then no wonder she doesn't stop. We couldn't find anyone like Dr. Phil to help ask the tough questions or do the right thing (make her accountable for her actions) just like he did today. I've said this for years about my in-law, yet no one did anything and here was Dr. Phil saying what I believed all along, but no one helped us.
 
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March 7, 2008, 5:54 am PST

Etiquette dilemmas

I think Kayla just wanted attention and by not dropping this she wants big bucks. By not accepting the apology and the free tickets, it proved it. She snookered Dr. Phil into believing she would drop things but then twisted it around and said she wouldn't be on another talk show. I bet if one asked her to appear she would again. She used Dr. Phil's kindness and connections to help her win her lawsuit.

 

I ended up burnt to a crisp and my insides make sounds of rusty pipes yet I didn't sue for millions. My husband almost died from a bone infection that went undetected for months and ended up in a body cast, yet he didn't sue. My cancer was misdiagnosed for 5 years and I was told it was all in my head. I didn't sue; I tried to make sure I stayed alive.... I lost my looks and health from others not doing their job right and that isn't right.

 

I was told I was too tall, thin, and beautiful when I stood up for my rights to work. I was told it couldn't go to court because the jury would take one look at me and feel that I deserved the abuse since I was so beautiful. How insane is that? I wore my husband's huge uniforms where the crouch went down to my knees...yet because I was pretty, that meant I deserved it? Plus I never even wore shorts during my lifetime... Yet I was told "anyone could 'imagine' what I looked like under the baggy clothes".

 

Plus many years later (while fighting to stay alive from cancer) when we were trying to defend against my in-law's crimes against us, again I was told I was too beautiful and the jury would conclude I was "a bitch" (me - someone that always treated everyone with kindness and I was fighting so hard just to stay alive from cancer) plus was told constantly, "She was too old to prosecute". Come on now! I was never rude to anyone in my whole life, yet because they didn't want to acknowledge that this woman deceived so many people (and I means so many) and it took little me to uncover her crimes, they use the excuse she is too old to prosecute. Dr. Phil should have considered having me on the show for relatives that rob heirs of their inheritance, etc., yet because she is old now, I was passed by and someone like Kayla gets on when she just had plans to pursue her lawsuit all along. Yet time limits passed on what we endured from my in-law and I sincerely just wanted to warn people how to protect their assets from the criminal relatives out there! So should I bitch that I was passed over?

 

I think Dr. Phil made a mistake having her on his show. Yes, she was cute, but no big deal. She isn't suing to make sure nothing like this happens to anyone else. Something like that doesn't happen that often, yet as for what we went through with being cheated by a relative (which I proved her pattern of cheating other relatives for decades), now that happens to TOO MANY trusting people out there. I feel helping to protect others on making sure they aren't left vulnerable to unconscionable relatives who feel they deserve everything for themselves and will do whatever it takes to get it for themselves, is a more deserving show that will help enlightened EVERYONE, not just one in a million, if that.

 

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