Advice Please

karlitob

Hi all,

Your advice, if you please.

My grandfather left an heirloom - not worth anything but its sentimentality to me is huge. As such, it passed to my father as it has been in our house for the past few years since his death. There was no will to specifically state that it was to be left to my father.

My father was kicked out of the house - arrested etc - last year. There is a court order is place barring him from the house. My father agreed that I could take the heirloom.

I'm in a difficult situation with both parents in that I don't speak with either of them and have cut all ties. I know want the heirloom and my mother has now taken it and removed it from the house. She refuses to tell me where it is. She is using it as a tool to hurt me - it really is a worthless heirloom but as I say, means so much to me.

Is there anything I can do to get it back. It really means so much to me and nothing to her (its not her father).

Thanks all.

FreudianSlippers

Ask your father for it.

karlitob

Thanks - I didn't think of that.

karlitob wrote: »

My father was kicked out of the house - arrested etc - last year. There is a court order is place barring him from the house. My father agreed that I could take the heirloom.

I'm in a difficult situation with both parents in that I don't speak with either of them and have cut all ties.

FreudianSlippers

Well I'm not sure what you want me to tell you?

The item belongs to your father & you want it. Therefore if you want it, you'll have to talk to your father and get it.

karlitob

Since I am in "Legal Discussion" rather than "Lets All Get On Nicely" I was obviously hoping for a legal solution and to find out where I stood legally.

As I say, there is nothing specific in a will. My father was kicked out of the house. The heirloom remained in the house. My mother has removed the heirloom from the house without anyone's consent.

Who owns it?
Can I use a legal means to reclaim it?

FreudianSlippers

karlitob wrote: »

Since I am in "Legal Discussion" rather than "Lets All Get On Nicely" I was obviously hoping for a legal solution and to find out where I stood legally.

You obviously didn't read the charter. We don't do legal advice here.

karlitob wrote: »

As I say, there is nothing specific in a will.

It probably said who he was leaving his belongings to specifically - this is part of that.

karlitob wrote: »

My father was kicked out of the house.

Don't really understand the relevance

karlitob wrote: »

The heirloom remained in the house. My mother has removed the heirloom from the house without anyone's consent.

Then your father has the right to get it back.

karlitob wrote: »

Who owns it?

Your father from the sounds of it

karlitob wrote: »

Can I use a legal means to reclaim it?

Nope, but your father may be able to. Then again, I couldn't say either way because of the no legal advice rule which you would have seen had you read the charter as requested.

karlitob

Thanks for nothing

FreudianSlippers

karlitob wrote: »

Thanks for nothing

You're welcome.

I'm sorry that I couldn't change the law to suit you.

karlitob

karlitob wrote: »

Since I am in "Legal Discussion" rather than "Lets All Get On Nicely" I was obviously hoping for a legal solution and to find out where I stood legally.

As I say, there is nothing specific in a will. My father was kicked out of the house. The heirloom remained in the house. My mother has removed the heirloom from the house without anyone's consent.

Who owns it?
Can I use a legal means to reclaim it?

Sometimes legal advice and common sense advice are the same thing mate. Calm down a little. I am sure that this situation has you feeling frustrated but there's every chance that you have no legal right to this item and that "ask your father" is the absolute best advice in the circumstances.

Reloc8

Presuming you are correct in that it is an heirloom which passed to your father, it is therefore his property.