clairebear007
Jan 2, 2009, 02:22 AM
My mother is French living in the United States under the care of only me and my sisters. My mother is barely 52 with dementia. We could no longer care for her at home so we had put her into a retirement home. We are my mother’s conservators. I and my sisters are still really young. As young as 18-25. We struggle financially a lot.
My mother has family in France and because of her sickness we lost all contact with them because unlike my mother we cannot fluently speak French. I created a MySpace account using my last name. Turns out that my family from France was looking for me and my sisters not really knowing too much about my mother’s sickness. My cousin wrote to me telling me that my grandpa died April 2008. She also told me that my grandpa had left my mom... my aunt... and my uncle an inheritance. Iguess my grandpa had some crazy life insurance I didn’t know about till know! As soon as my cousin told me the amount I was in total shock!! I could not believe it. I still don’t believe it! She said about 800,000 euro and a house in La Rochelle was to be split among the three of them. If this is all true... me and my sisters will go to France and settle the inheritance for my mom because she is way to sick to go. Iguess notaries are supposed to contact me and my sisters from France after the holidays.
I have no idea what to expect.
How would the inheritance itself work?
How would the inheritance tax work? For an American citizen living in America/French citizen
How long would it take to get the inheritance money if this is all true?
As my mother’s conservators do we have the right to claim ower grandpa’s inheritance for my mom?
What would be the best advice you could give me about my whole situation?
What would you do if you were in my shoes? Lol
This is all still unreal for me and my sisters please help us out with alil advice lol
Thank you!
Xoxoxo
My mother has family in France and because of her sickness we lost all contact with them because unlike my mother we cannot fluently speak French. I created a MySpace account using my last name. Turns out that my family from France was looking for me and my sisters not really knowing too much about my mother’s sickness. My cousin wrote to me telling me that my grandpa died April 2008. She also told me that my grandpa had left my mom... my aunt... and my uncle an inheritance. Iguess my grandpa had some crazy life insurance I didn’t know about till know! As soon as my cousin told me the amount I was in total shock!! I could not believe it. I still don’t believe it! She said about 800,000 euro and a house in La Rochelle was to be split among the three of them. If this is all true... me and my sisters will go to France and settle the inheritance for my mom because she is way to sick to go. Iguess notaries are supposed to contact me and my sisters from France after the holidays.
I have no idea what to expect.
How would the inheritance itself work?
How would the inheritance tax work? For an American citizen living in America/French citizen
How long would it take to get the inheritance money if this is all true?
As my mother’s conservators do we have the right to claim ower grandpa’s inheritance for my mom?
What would be the best advice you could give me about my whole situation?
What would you do if you were in my shoes? Lol
This is all still unreal for me and my sisters please help us out with alil advice lol
Thank you!
Xoxoxo