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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mother’s sister is in the hospital and will be going into a nursing home. She lost all her immediate family (husband and one child) to covid. My mom and her sister have always been very close, and my mom has helped her financially throughout the years: most of the furniture in their house was given to them by my mom, and my mom even took in my (now dead) cousin for over a year while my aunt was undergoing cancer treatment and in rehab. (This was a long time ago - my aunt recovered, my cousin went back home, grew up and years later, died of covid.) They don’t live close to us but we have been traveling back and forth and in daily contact with the medical team. My aunt just told me that just before I got to the hospital, a niece from her husband’s side brought a notary public and two witnesses (friends of their family) to the hospital to add her to all the bank accounts and the house title.

I do not know if my aunt will have any money left if and when she passes but I know my mom will be hurt, not because of the money but because, as the next of kin,  she is deliberately being written out. It sounds like my aunt wants me to make sure my mom knows. I’ve got to say I don’t fully understand the reasoning: the family involved is very nice but they don’t need the money and they are not helping out my aunt at all (not financially and not logistically). All of the logistics - finding a facility, home health aide, etc - is falling on us.

How would you tell your mom or would you just let her find out eventually? I don’t appreciate being put in this position. [/quote]

A notary can't just add someone to the bank accounts or house. Sounds like she has power of attorney. Better talk to the aunt and figure out what she wants to do with her estate. Does she have a will?[/quote]

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