I had to sue my clients’ evil brother for a fraudulent deed.
I was initially retained in 2019 by a brother and sister to defend a reverse mortgage foreclosure action. The loan was under their deceased mother’s name and affected the family residence located in Nassau County. Their parents purchased the home in 1970.
We soon discovered that the deed to the family residence was mysteriously transferred to my clients’ youngest sibling (evil brother) by a deed allegedly signed by their mother prior to her passing. The deed looked like a little kid drafted it.
In 2022, evil brother retained an evil attorney (evil attorney #1) to try to evict his disabled sister (my client) from the family residence in order to sell the property and keep a profit to himself. Evil brother also had the house listed with an evil realtor.
Evil attorney #1 was relentless in his pursuit to evict my client from the family residence. Over my objections, the District Court Judge scheduled a final date for the eviction trial.
In response, I commenced our own legal action against evil brother in the Supreme Court. I filed a Notice of Pendency in Nassau County to put everyone on notice of our claims of fraud. I then filed an emergency Motion in the Supreme Court in order to stop the District Court from proceeding with the eviction. The Supreme Court Judge granted my emergency Motion. I provided a copy of the granted Supreme Court Order to evil attorney #1 and the District Court Judge. The eviction trial was canceled and the proceeding was prohibited from proceeding. Evil attorney #1 was not happy.
Evil brother then retained another evil attorney (evil attorney #2) to try dismiss our fraudulent action in the Supreme Court. After approximately three (3) years of litigation, evil attorney #2 passed away. Evil brother eventually gave up and transferred any ownership and right he had to the property to my clients. My clients now own the family residence and can do what they want with it. At the end, good wins over evil.
In what started as defending a foreclosure action, turned into defending an eviction proceeding, and then transformed to commencing and prosecuting our own legal action. This was fun.
