Update: Deceased Girlfriend’s Mother Threatening To Sue Me For Equity In My Home

Location: Florida

First I would like to thank everyone who expressed their condolences to me regarding my girlfriend. It’s been a very difficult road since she has been gone.

Secondly, thank you to everyone who sent me advice and support for navigating this.

I just want to tell my experience.

I ended up meeting with 3 different lawyers (2 free consultations and one paid). I went with all of the documentation I had and all 3 pretty much told me the same thing: unless they had something I didn’t, they did not see a case where her mother had any sort of claim to try to get anything from me. We even went over Cash app and Venmo transfers, and while she did send me money thru those, the money I sent to my girlfriend was more than what she sent me.

The attorney that I paid for the consultation for offered to write a legal response to the letter on my behalf at no additional cost, but with the understanding that should she move forward with a lawsuit that I would have to begin making payments toward their service if I wanted to use them. I agreed to that, they allowed me to read their response and broke down the legal terms for me that I didn’t understand before sending it. I agreed and they sent it. This was yesterday morning.

Earlier this afternoon I got a phone call from the attorneys office stating that they had received a response. The attorney then got on the phone with me personally to let me know that the response they received from her attorney stated that she would not be pursue any further and to consider the matter closed.

I know that my experience will not be typical of what may happen with others, but I wanted to make this update and again thank everyone for their support and their advice.