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linx310
02-17-2005, 06:41 PM
My friends mother is going crazy and selling every thing to "get back" at her son...

Here is the story:

My friends father owned a large power company near austin. When he died his wife got every thing. She sold the power company.

The land my friend lives on is his mothers(he owns the house and a acre but it is surrounded by his mothers land...its around 50 acres or so and used to have several houses on it...

Ever since he got married his mother has declared war on him and wont even acknowledge her grandsons existance...

Last night she told my friend she is selling every thing (btw she is a very big gambler) so what he was expecting to get when his mother passes away is wont be there...and this is not what his father wanted before his untimely death in the 80s...

Now here is the twist....we have know she has paid people to burn down some of the houses she has owned for the insurance money. We cant prove it but it happend. She also flooded one house for the insurance money also.

But last night during an argument she admited that she had her son in law forge signatures for power of attoreny on his uncles properity when he died.(over $200,000+ in cash alone!)

This has been suspected for some time becuase she left a brief case over at and old house and he got ahold of the documents and signatures looking nothing like his uncles handwriting. Luckly from what I under stand he has these in his safe.

He his gonna go over to her place tonight and ask her why she forged the signatures again and tape the conversation.

Is there any way in court to prevert her from selling every thing off so she gamble the money away? She has commited numerous cases of insurance fraud, forged signatures, and recieved death benfits from his uncle that has no relation to her!

We know the person who was paid to burn the house down, he wont admit it but from what i recall they saw him do it....could the court call him in to do a polygraph?

Prometheus606
02-17-2005, 06:45 PM
Polygraphs are not court admisable in Texas, and proving arson w/o an eyewitness or a confession is damn near impossible if there is no direct evidence linking him to the crime.

Rusty

shorthair
02-17-2005, 07:04 PM
have friend talk to da before he does anything else!

linx310
02-17-2005, 07:07 PM
Yea Rusty thats what I thought...

The forged signature thing though is probably enough....from what he tells me it looks nothing like his real signature...and the fact she admited to it last night!

He is working the phones right now trying to find a good lawyer and looking over all the legal documents to see what else may have been forged...

His mother is crazy...she made death threats against his wife in the early 90s and she stood up to her....his wife was his 3rd girlfriend that wasnt run off by her...

He is also wondering if some thing mentally went wrong....that fact that she goes to the casino almost twice a month and blows $10,000 means she has a problem imho...is it possible to get a court order to stop some one from going into fincial ruin?

Prometheus606
02-17-2005, 07:11 PM
You could have him see if she could be taken in on a mental health warrant and evaluated....

Rusty

Wrangler100
02-18-2005, 10:15 AM
Seems to me that you have a legal obligation to report a crime as soon as you know that it is a crime.

Hanging onto those forged documents for leverage may be deemed a form of extortion.

Mr Magoo
02-18-2005, 10:40 AM
Criminal lawyers could tell you about forgeries and the other illegal concerns. Some sort of land lawyer would know estate stuff.

Ideally see a criminal lawyer and get this to the DA as soon as possible.

linx310
02-18-2005, 11:15 AM
Hanging onto those forged documents for leverage may be deemed a form of extortion

They THOUGHT they where forged but were not sure until last night when she admited she had some one forge them...