The Swooper - A Lady Flew In At The Last Minute And Is Now Executor Of Estate And Inheritance.

Location: Watertown, SD USA

The small town where my father lived, (Codington County), passed away Sept 13, 2025. That town is surrounded by a 120 mile radius of “Conflict of Interest” which is wild to me because my dad was not in nor apart of the legal system. My guess is the lawyer is shady and has paid-off the surrounding law firms?

The lawyer came over to my fathers home at 8:00 pm 9/9/2025 due to my father being in home in hospice care, my father was coaxed by this woman we hardly know, to go without morphine for 5 hours (I have proof) to be alert enough to sign a will entitling this woman $50k in cash of his inheritance and leaving whatever equity in the mortgaged mobile home to us 7 children (less than $50k after expenses).

The will was witnessed by the lawyers wife. My father, under what I claim is duress due to the lack of medication to be alert enough to sign the will, did not read the will as our names are spelled incorrectly. The lawyer “summarized” it for him, this is proved as one child was missing from the list of heirs to which my father hand wrote an amendment adding that sister in. My father passed away 70 hours later.

During the week prior, he was slowly dying of cancer. I called adult protection services to claim the elder law issue of the woman trying to coherse my father leave his home to go to the courthouse to get married. The following day I asked the home hospice nurse to weigh in on my dad leaving the home in his condition. After the nurse discouraged him from leaving his home, The nurse witnessed the woman scream at me about my dad making his own choices; the nurse documented the interaction. Later I called his actual GP doctor, not affiliated with home hospice, and requested my dad be evaluated for his ability to make life-changing decisions. The doctor sent a nurse to evaluate him and that nurse, from his doctors office, told my dad that I, who was to remain anonymous, called to have him evaluated as incompetent. I was lucky my dad didn’t kick me out of the house. He never made it to the courthouse to get married because he physically declined rapidly after that day. I am filing a formal complaint to Sanford Medical due to this breach of confidentiality.

This woman wasn’t apart of the funeral requests my father discussed with my step-sister and funeral director alone. After my father passed the woman wasn’t in the funeral home but for 15 minutes before leaving the table with us all continuing the plans of his wake and funeral processes. As the executor of the estate my father signed over to her in his will she should have remained at the table, especially during the financial agreement with that funeral home. The woman did pay half of the costs as they requested and has now told them to have us kids to pay the other half when she is fully responsible. I’m not sure if the funeral home costs have been paid or not.

The mobile home is on the real estate market for $20k more than my dad bought it for in Jan 2025, and the woman’s lawyer recommends it stay this overpriced “until the situation is resolved”. I don’t know what that means, the real estate agent called me to let me know of his discussion with her to reduce the price.

I know the woman is concerned about me challenging the will and has sought for representation from a law firm outside of town. She is right. I also now finally found a law firm that is not “Conflict of Interest”. They’re 2 HOURS AWAY. smh.

TL; DR With the situation I have provided, how likely am I able to win this over? The will was signed at 8pm without medication needed for his pain, misspelling of our names, the lawyers wife as a witness - no notary, nurse documentation of the woman’s outburst, and none of us heirs have seen the will nor received a copy after requesting mumble times. Her proved involvement has been from the day my father was diagnosed with cancer - Feb 2025. Also my father’s late wife of 33 years died July 2025. Showing he was vulnerable. Location is Watertown , SD