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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Real estate?  Motor vehicles?  Were any items declared on a home owners policy?  Bank and investment accounts?  IRA's?  Life insurance?

These are traceable things that should be discoverable.[/quote]

According to dad (passed last summer), there was a bank account ($100k CD), life insurance ($100k+) and motor vehicle ($10k+/-), as well as jewelry and furs ($30k +/-); (probably not itemized on homeowners, or would have been on siblings' homeowners policy, if at all).  Dad lived with my brother for a few years, in a house that dad bought for brother (house in brother's name).  I suspect jewelry and furs were given to SIL, and that rather and SIL were encouraged, under duress, to keep everything quiet. Brother and SIL are doing a great job pretending everything is "lost" (???) - is there any way a court can force these ties to be produced?  Especially if I do not have photos of the items (proof of their existence)?

Is this worth pursuing, or is it going to get thrown out of court, no matter how much money I throw at it?

How do I find these things out, without a cooperative party? And given that brother that is deliberately trying to cover every last track of his thievery? [/quote]

Were both names on the house?  If not no $ for you.  Bank accounts-were they joint with your brother?  Beneficiary on life ins?  Whose name was the car titled under?  
Did you get a copy of the will?  Your dad is deceased so something must have happened with the county where he died.  Probate? Register of wills?

Here's a link to DC probate court.  If you are a beneficiary and have heard nothing you need to discover if they have filed for probate or perhaps you need to find out if you are a beneficiary.  http://www.dccourts.gov/internet/public/aud_probate/main.jsf

[b]As I posted yesterday garbage in garbage out even for lawyers. [/b] If the bro absconded with money and stuff so be it.  Bank accounts, life ins policies, real estate deeds [gift of equity or loan and lifetime max gifts] , IRS gift tax form dad might have fiked, etc.  And the car.  Cars most commonly are registered and insured. [/quote]

Exactly.  "Garbage in" was very much intentional. Unless I am the POA, what can I do?  Brother was the POA. [/quote]

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