Posted on 10/05/2022 4:52:17 PM PDT by simpson96
Grandkids are supposed to steal your heart — not your house.
A Brooklyn woman allegedly hijacked her grandmother’s longtime home by forging the elder’s signature on a fake deed and filing it with the city — then took out a $399,000 mortgage on the property, according to a $5 million lawsuit.
Leonita Arbuckle, 77, bought her two-story, multi-family Flatbush house with her husband Selwyn in 1972 for $31,650, dutifully paying off the mortgage in 1995.
But the retired nurse got a letter in May claiming the property had been transferred to her granddaughter, Jaishree Arbuckle-Pierre, for $1, the grandmother charges in her Brooklyn Supreme Court lawsuit.
“You don’t expect that from your kids,” she told The Post.
Arbuckle says she never gave her home to the younger woman, who was raised and lived in the home until she graduated from high school in 2004, according to court papers.
The apparently ungrateful granddaughter has a history of fraud, legal records show.
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Despite it all, Arbuckle said she’s not willing to let the alleged transgressions destroy their relationship.
“How mad could I be? It’s done,” she said, noting that Arbuckle-Pierre’s teen son still lives with her in the home.
“He doesn’t know we’re threatened to go live out on the street,” she said.
She’s fighting to regain ownership of her home, but won’t give up on her granddaughter either.
“I’m not going to destroy my relationship … she’s going to be my granddaughter til the day she die,” Arbuckle said.
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We need a serious change to whatever laws permit this type of thing. The legal doctrine going forward should be that ANY company, bank, lender, etc. that forces you to give them your personal information is 100% liable for ANY and all consequences of negligent or fraudulent misuse of that information. I can’t understand how current law could possibly throw the losses related to fraud and the responsibility for cleaning up the aftermath onto the shoulders of the victim. It’s insane, and only encourages more fraud because there’s no incentive for the possessors of the personal info to be diligent in guarding it.
Same thing should go for the credit rating agencies. They should be fully exposed to liability for incorrect information in credit files due to error or fraud, and THEY, and not the victim, should be responsible for correcting the fallout from identity theft. I’ve heard too many horror stories of innocent victims of identity theft having to spend years of their lives, and jump through tons of hoops, having To clean up the mess themselves.
You want all of my personal info for some loan, credit card, hotel reservation, etc.? Then YOU should be liable for the financial consequences of any fraudulent use of that info, including putting everything back the way it was. I guarantee that if these companies and agencies were responsible themselves, identity theft would disappear tomorrow. They’re so lax with info because it’s not their problem when it’s misused.
“She’s going to be my granddaughter til the day SHE die”
Isnt it usually “til the day I die”
Sounds like grandma might know something.
“She’s going to be my granddaughter til the day SHE die”
Isnt it usually “til the day I die”
Sounds like grandma might know something.
It sounds fishy but I'm not a lawyer...maybe that's how the legal system works now.
Yep!
I had a case similar to this one. Caretaker forged and notarized a deed from elderly employer to herself. Caretaker recorded the deed after employer died, and took out a $70K mortgage. The heirs sought to set aside the deed, and I filed a suit to quiet title based upon a clearly forged instrument. Didn’t even need a handwriting expert. Mortgage company agreed to pay off the heirs the value of the house, and kept the collateral and the right to sue the forger.
This grandma can forgive all she wants, but she’ll need to throw the granddaughter under the bus in order to strip that mortgage.
Mine were as well but they went soft hearted or soft headed with their grandchildren.
We’d never get away with the stuff they did.
But nothing compared to stealing from granny. Bridge too far.
My middle sister got her name on our parents bank account to help them when they moved back from another state and needed a place to stay. After our mother passed away she then stole $108,000 from our father leaving him with about $28,000. He was spending about $3,000 a month so would have been broke pretty quick. He died before that happened, probably when he saw his bank account.
Afterward is when us 3 others found out what she did.
I have read and heard many stories over the years about others with similar stories.
I think you’ve got that backwards. Forgiveness didn’t get us here.
“She’s going to be my granddaughter til the day SHE die”
Hope grandma doesn’t have life insurance...
“How mad could I be? It’s done,” she said, noting that Arbuckle-Pierre’s teen son still lives with her in the home.
So, Granny Arbuckle is raising a 3rd generation...her great-grandson, now....after raising this ingrate of a granddaughter...she gets to also raise said ingrate’s son.
LOL...true.
Girl, don’t mess with Granny.
Slip a few hundred to the notary and BAM!everything is “legal”.
We recently bought a home and most of the mortgage documents were signed on-line. We did the first and last ones in person, though.
“She’s going to be my granddaughter til the day SHE die”
Isnt it usually “til the day I die”
Sounds like grandma might know something.
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Perhaps Granny has some plans. 😊
Sorry lady, your granddaughter already destroyed the relationship.
That were me, I’d specifically write that person out of the will and state why, in the will, so that should it be challenged in court, everyone would know why.
LMAO. I was thinking the same thing!
Same here. Couldn’t even imagine doing something like that. The whole family would rain hellfire down on the offender and they would be cut off completely.
Actually, I go by the principle of forgive - but NEVER forget.
Because the next time, there may be no forgiveness.
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