Financial Exploitation Of An Elder

I need serious advice. This is long, but I’m desperate for guidance.

I’m one of three sisters from the same mom and dad. I moved to Michigan about 10 years ago but always stayed connected. My parents shared our childhood home in Miami. My mom has been living in her home country for a while but would still come back to stay in the Miami house.

Fast forward to the end of 2023: the house was almost completely paid off after 30+ years of my dad paying the mortgage. He only owed around $13,000.

Around this time my dad fell into financial hardship and was dealing with a serious prostate illness. He was on oxycodone for pain. My youngest sister, who is in the Navy, swooped in acting like a hero, offering to “help” him pay off the house.

While he was medicated and vulnerable, she convinced him to sign a deed transfer. What I didn’t know until recently is that my youngest sister and my oldest sister were both involved in pushing him to sign. My mom even flew in from her country just to pressure him too—at one point she literally threw herself on the floor begging him to sign the papers.

My dad agreed because my younger sister promised she would never sell the house and was only trying to “protect it.”

Two months later, she sold the house for around $450,000.

She sent almost all the money to our mother in her country. Then my older sister got kicked out and came to live with me in Michigan. I thought she had nothing to do with it but turns out she was also working with the younger one. My little sister gave her $30,000 to buy a house here. My older sister has now abandoned that home and moved back in with the younger sister.

I’m sharing all of this to show the pattern: they have been in cahoots the whole time. My little sister, big sister, and mother all benefitted from the $450K sale, while my father an elderly man with medical issues ended up being given only $30,000 of his equity and is currently living in a tin shed in Fort Lauderdale. He doesn't even have a bathroom there. he washes in a bucket. It is absolutely heart breaking.

Everything about this screams:

• Financial exploitation of an elderly person
• Fraud
• Undue influence
• Possibly coercion

My dad now wants to hire a lawyer and fight. This was his life savings. He worked three jobs at one point to keep that house. I’ve tried reaching out to my younger sister just to understand how this money was supposedly “split,” and she refuses to answer. Instead she insults me for defending our dad.

My questions:

• Does my dad have a case?
• What are the chances of winning something like this?
• Has anyone been through anything similar?
• What kind of lawyer should we even be looking for?

Any real advice would be appreciated. My dad deserves justice.

Location: MI