‘She's literally holding [grandmother's] things hostage’: Aunt convinces her aging mother to sign over the deed to her house before she passes, then isolates anyone in the family who opposes her

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Sep 12, 2025 4:00 PM EDT

A person's last will should reflect their decisions when they are of sound mind and judgment. There are lawyers present at will-writings and proceedings for this very reason. Someone can easily be coerced or tricked into giving away their assets by a rather convincing individual, so it is imperative that the person is surrounded by people who respect their wishes. The person who posted this next story explains that their grandmother wasn't so lucky, and that their aunt successfully tricked their grandmother into signing over the deed to her house, to her.

Call this whatever you want, but at the end of the day… this decision is likely void due to the grandmother's mental impairment when the will was changed. Entitlement knows no bounds, and sharing DNA with another does not bind you to an unwritten contract of respect. There are manipulative people out there, and you very well might be related to one of them. The original poster explains that their aunt is now disallowing anyone else's side of the family from entering their grandmother's home, and they do not have access to any of their late loved one's belongings. Sometimes, in a loved one's passing, "family" shows their true colors…

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  • "Entitled aunt steals grandmother's home against her wishes after she passed."

    My "aunt" destroyed her relationship and isolated herself from most of the family when she tricked my grandmother heavily hopped on morphine to sign over the deed of the house to her with the help of one of her sisters (other aunt) and a friend to act as the "unbiased" notary.
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  • She also did this while my grandmother was still in the hospital, my mother was out of town, and no other siblings were around.
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  • She knew that my grandmother wanted to leave her home to all of her children and if they decided to sell it for each of them to get an equal share of the sale.
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  • She sat all of them down and discussed this before she ever got sick.
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  • My "aunt" felt as if she deserved my grandmother's home because "she's lived with her for over a decade, 'put up' with her mood swings and 'took care' of her."
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  • When in reality, she only lived with her so she could save money on rent and living on her own.
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  • She helped her with her mortgage and contributed to groceries and necessities but would ignore my grandmother when she got home.
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  • She wouldn't care for her she'd argue with her.
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  • My now 22 year old younger cousin was the one caring, spending time, and cooking for my grandmother.
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  • She also tried to deny and discourage anyone from visiting or spending time with grandma if she didn't like them.
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  • She's the only one out of all of my grandmother's children who constantly moved back in with her and used her for her own benefits.
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  • Even when she could afford to live on her own, she never moved out and treated it like her own home and storage.
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  • Hoarding so many things.
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  • $350 a month in mortgage payments on a house purchased in the 90s is way cheaper than renting or owning a home now.
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  • She felt entitled and deserving of my grandmother's home.
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  • Unfortunately, she never wrote a will because she was never ready to go, and before she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cance, she was perfectly healthy.
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  • After her diagnosi, she was gone within a month.
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  • She passed a week to the day before my birthday last year.
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  • Edit: Sorry, I forgot to mention she hasn't let anyone except those on her side (her kids, grandkids, [that don't know any better] her sister and sister's kids) come over to my grandmother's home to even see much less touch any of her belongings.
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  • Not that any of us want to see her, but she's literally holding her things hostage and supposedly hasn't even gone in her room because it's "too hard and painful" for her.
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  • I don't doubt that maybe she has some kind of sadness but when my grandma passed it was almost like she wanted to rush through her funeral.
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  • She also tried to control everything as always.
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  • My opinion is that what she's really sad about is no longer having control and not being able to use my grandmother as an excuse for trying to control everything to "make her happy" and "it's what grandma wants."
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