Asked by Jessica on 22-06-2023 17:49:09
Question posted in the Property Law category relating to Western Cape
Good day. I'm asking regarding my pensioner father. My father lived in my grandmother's house for more than 30 years. My grandmother lived with her other son who was divorced. When he got married again my grandmother decide to go back to her home with whom she shared with my father. My uncle got divorced again and decided to go live with my grandmother also. He sort of build a living space for him to live in. He got married again now he want to sell my grandmother's house because he want the money he used to build him a living space back. My grandmother is in the old age home now and she said numerous times that it is my father's house but he is determined to sell the house and my grandmother don't want to. He overpowered my grandmother to get some kind of will that stated that he can sell the house when she die but it doesn't look like he will wait for her to die to sell the house. In the meantime my grandmother put the municipal account in my father's name. To add my uncle had 4 houses which he also sold. What can my father do.
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