My husband bought his grandparents home after they died from his parents. The house was paid for, but his parents took out a mortgage and gave a portion of that to my husband when he bought the house from them 12 yrs ago. I don't believe there was any paperwork from this. Our home is through Country wide mortgage. His parents decided they wanted their money now instead of later. We tried to refinance for a lower interest rate, and found out they put a lien on our home for $37,000 8 months ago. We were never notified or served with anything... is this legal? How can someone just go and do that?
EandK