I'll start with a little backstory. My mom lives in Texas and has been in California taking care of her mother and father for the past 3 years. My grandfather passed about 1.5 years ago and she briefly returned to Texas, only to go back and help take care of her mother. My grandmother doesn't have good short term memory, has fallen and had a hip replacement, and her doctors says she can not live alone any more. My mother and her two brothers have placed my grandmother in a home. They got her on MediCal and they are paying most of the bill for the home ($6000 a month). Being my grandmother is now in a home my mother wants to return to Texas, I flew down here to help her drive back down to Texas. Anyway, on the way to go visit my grandmother yesterday, my mom explains that I can't tell her the house is for sale. The way she explained it to me is once the house is sold the money goes into a trust fund, and when she passes will be split between the three of them. This will protect MediCal from recovering the monies they will be paying for the rest home. If that is how the game is played I understand, but I am still left with a feeling of something isn't right. I am a very honest person and it is breaking my heart to have to basically like to my grandmother, even if it is for the good. Someone please tell me this is normal and how estates are handled when we reach the end of the line. They have already emptied the house, held yard sales, and divided up all worthy possessions. Everything is gone.
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Submitted December 08, 2018 at 07:40AM by cordell-12 https://ift.tt/2PpJmYj
