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Client seeks assistance with a deed transfer. Client lives in the home of his deceased father, who passed away intestate in 2011. Client’s father was never married and he had no other children. Client received letters of administration in 2013. Client would like to transfer title into his name. There is a delinquent real estate tax balance on the home, […]

Client seeks assistance with a deed transfer. Client’s deceased mother is the owner of the home. Client’s mother died in December 2013; she willed her home to her children, which include Client and three sons. Client’s brothers are willing to give her their interests in the property. One of Client’s brother’s is the executor of the estate and has letters […]

Client seeks assistance with a deed of correction. Client owns the home in which she lives; however, the title is under her married name. Client has been divorced for over 20 years and has retaken her maiden name. She would like to correct the deed to reflect this change. A volunteer is needed to draft a deed in client’s legal […]

Client seeks help with obtaining the title to her house. The house is currently in the name of her husband, who died intestate in March 2021. Husband had five children, all of whom are willing to sign their interest in the property over to client. Client has letters of administration for her husband’s estate. A volunteer is needed to draft […]

Client seeks assistance with a deed transfer. Client’s ex-husband is the record owner of the home, which he acquired solely in his name in 2002. The property was Client and ex-husband’s marital home until their divorce in February 2020; Client is presently living in the property. Client’s ex-husband is willing to give his interest in the property to client. A […]

Client seeks title to the property of his deceased wife’s home. Client is the administrator of his wife’s estate. Client’s eight stepchildren are willing to give him their interest in the property. A volunteer is needed to prepare and execute a deed giving title to the client.

Client seeks assistance with a deed transfer. Client’s deceased mother and father are the record owners of the home, as tenants by the entirety. Client’s father died in May 1989; Client’s mother died in December 2020. Both died intestate. Client has letters of administration for her mother’s estate. A volunteer is needed to help client draft a deed transferring title […]

Client seeks assistance with a deed of correction. Client has been divorced for over 20 years. The deed to her home is in her married name. A volunteer is needed to prepare a deed that reflects client’s maiden name. Client has an open wills case, VIP Case #22-0047899. Volunteers are encouraged but not required to take both cases.

69-year- old client seeks assistance transferring the deed of her childhood home into her name. Her mother, the deceased record owner, passed away under client’s care about 10 years ago. Client has raised the estate of her mother, gotten letters of administration, and paid inheritance taxes. A volunteer is needed to draft a new deed naming client as the title […]

Client seeks assistance with a deed transfer. Client’s mother died in 2018 intestate. Client’s mother had three children: client and two sisters. One sister lives in Philadelphia and the other lives in Maryland. Client has opened the estate and is named administrator. Client cannot make certain improvements to the home until the deed is in her name. Clients siblings agree […]

Client seeks assistance with a deed of confirmation, to honor her late mother’s goals for ownership of her family home. Client inherited the property with her brother and son as joint tenants with right of survivorship. Client’s brother passed in 2022. The family’s shared goal is to keep Client and her son on title to the home. A volunteer is […]

Disabled client seeks assistance with a deed transfer. Client lives in a home that was originally in her mother’s name, who passed away intestate in 1998. Years later, the eldest of Client’s three brothers probated their mother’s estate after the mortgage company attempted foreclosure; he received letters of administration in 2017. In 2018, Eldest Brother probated another brother’s estate after […]

Client seeks assistance with getting title to his home, owned by his recently deceased father. Client’s father died testate, with a will devising the property to Client. Client has already opened his father’s estate with Letters of Administration, with cooperation from his mother and sister. A volunteer attorney is now needed to draft a deed transferring title to Client, so […]

Client needs assistance with a deed transfer. The title of the house is currently in his grandmother’s name, who held it in trust for his mother. Mother died in 2015, predeceasing Grandmother, who passed away in 2021. Both died intestate. Client has letters of administration for his grandmother’s estate. A volunteer is needed to prepare and execute a deed granting […]

A tenacious advocate seeks support keeping her home in her family for generations to come. Client faced a mortgage foreclosure in 2009, and successfully defended a sheriff sale and won a sheriff sale set-aside. She has remained in her home while she raised her ten children, survived Covid, and paid of her mortgage in full in 2021. A volunteer is […]

Elderly client seeks assistance with a deed transfer. Client’s grandmother and mother left property to client through a South Philly Trust deed. Mother predeceased Grandmother. Grandmother passed away in 1978. Client is the only beneficiary. A volunteer is needed to draft and execute a deed transferring title to client. Assistance with preparation of the inheritance tax return and application to […]