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Hearing: September 26, 2023 at 12:45 PM Client is a nurse who fell behind on rent after going back to school a few months ago. One of the property managers told Client they’d help her apply for rental assistance and settle the matter outside of court. However, after Client paid $1500 in good faith, she learned a different property manager […]

Warm and grateful client seeks assistance probating her mother’s estate and transferring title of the home she currently lives in from her mother’s name to hers. Mother, the deceased record owner, died in February 2021, leaving behind five children as heirs, including client. All four siblings signed renunciations to allow client to open the estate. However, only two of the […]

Client seeks assistance probating her mother’s estate and obtaining title to her home. Client’s mother died intestate in 2009. Client is the only living heir. VIP is assisting Client with filling out the Tangled Title Fund (TTF) application to assist with costs associated with the process. A volunteer is needed to assist Client with opening her mother’s estate, drafting a […]

Hearing: October 16, 2023 at 1:15 PM Kind client and her family are facing eviction and a $7K+ money judgment. Client’s husband abruptly moved out of the home in June 2023, but told Client that he would continue paying rent. Client was blindsided by the eviction notice and is worried about losing her home. Ideally, she would like to remain […]

Client seeks assistance with probating his mother’s estate and obtaining title to his home. The property is currently titled in the name of Client’s mother, who died testate. Client is the sole heir under his mother’s will and was named executor. VIP is assisting client with filling out the Tangled Title Fund (TTF) application. A volunteer is needed to assist […]

Client purchased her home in 2007, has paid in full, and now needs assistance to remove the promissory note, which was recorded. She financed the home through a mortgage, but unexpected costs arose, and the grantor lent her $15,000, recording a “deed of trust” securing the debt against the property. The client paid the loan back in cash shortly after, […]

Organized and responsive 48-year-old client needs help transferring the title of her home, which is currently owned by her grandmother and her two sons as tenants in common. Client’s grandmother died intestate in 2021. Client is still grieving her grandmother’s loss and is eager to close out this administrative chapter in her life to focus on her health, well-being and […]

Client would like to get title to her home for stable housing for her grandchild, following a devasting number of losses to her family throughout the pandemic. The property is owned by client’s maternal grandmother, who died in 2021 from COVID. Her grandmother passed away intestate, survived by seven heirs. Client has obtained a decree which will name her administrator […]

Friendly client would like title to his home of 14 years through a quiet title action based on adverse possession. Client entered a month-to-month lease agreement in November of 2008. Around the beginning of 2011, deceased landlord’s attorney reached out to client to offer client to buy the house from landlord’s estate. Client could not afford to buy the house […]

Sweet and organized client needs assistance with probating her mother’s estate, so that she can transfer title of her family’s home into her name and apply to government programs to update the home. The deceased record owners are client’s parents. Client’s father passed intestate in 1992, and client’s mother passed intestate in 1994. Client is the only living heir. Client […]

Lovely, responsive client would like help probating her father’s estate and obtaining title to her home. Client’s father, the deceased record owner (“DRO”) passed in July 2022, divorced and without a will. His son predeceased him, but left behind a minor son. Client and her nephew are DRO’s only surviving heirs. VIP assisted client with petition for citation for the […]

46-year-old client seeks assistance gaining title of her home through a quiet title action based on adverse possession. Client moved into the property in 2007 and entered a year-long lease to rent the property. After the lease was up, client did not sign anything else, but continued to pay rent until 2013 with receipts to reflect this. Landlord of the […]

Client seeks assistance probating her mother’s estate. Client’s mother died intestate in 2012. Client’s sibling is the only other heir, and has signed the necessary renunciation. VIP is assisting Client with filling out the Tangled Title Fund (TTF) application to assist with costs associated with the process. A volunteer is needed to assist Client with opening her mother’s estate, drafting […]

Mother of disabled daughter needs assistance probating her grandmother’s estate to take full title of the home in which she is raising her daughter. Client and her grandmother were on title together as tenants in common. Client’s grandmother died in 2000 without a will. The only other heir is Client’s mother who has already signed a renunciation and is willing […]

Client seeks assistance getting title to the home she has lived in for the past 22 years. In November 2000, Client and her partner at the time, used a straw buyer to assist them with purchasing the home because they did not have sufficient credit. The buyer was a friend of the couple and agreed to put the deed and […]

Grateful and responsive 73-year-old client seeks assistance gaining title to the home she’s lived in since 1990. Her husband who recently passed in 2021 is the sole record owner. Client has a very small DHS bill but VIP has started the process of getting her a hardship waiver. Client is guaranteed partial title, but will potentially be able to get […]

Grateful, sixty-year-old client needs help probating her father’s estate to obtain title to her home in order to receive repair assistance for a very leaky roof. Father, the deceased record owner, died intestate in 2007, leaving behind only client as his surviving heir. VIP assisted client with preparing a Tangled Title Fund application, which will be provided to the volunteer. […]

Client, who had disabling cancer, has been living in her home since 1993. She moved in under the understanding that the record owner would transfer title to her after she paid off the back real estate taxes of about $16,000. She did this and never heard from the record owner again. Then, in 1999, record owner transferred title instead to […]

Patient and responsive client needs a volunteer to help her get title to her home in order to receive assistance for her real estate taxes. Client’s father died in 1993 without a will; he was survived by client and four other heirs. Two of the four heirs have signed renunciations. VIP is assisting the client with a Tangled Title Fund […]

Eager client is seeking assistance with probating her grandmother’s estate and obtaining title to her home so that she can continue working on necessary repairs to keep the home safe and habitable. Client’s grandmother died intestate more than a decade ago, leaving client’s mother as her only heir to her property. Client’s mother is ready to give client her interest […]

Disabled 64-year-old client seeks assistance with a quiet title action based on adverse possession. More than fifteen years ago, client found a property that was abandoned. She moved in and started making repairs. She pays utilities and she is in an Owner-Occupied Payment Agreement. VIP has done preliminary research on the deceased record owner of the property, and has identified […]

Diligent client needs help with probating his father’s estate, so that he can gain title to his family home. The deceased record owners are client’s parents; client’s father passed intestate in 2018, and client’s mother passed intestate in 1993. Parents left behind client and client’s three siblings. Although one of client’s siblings has passed away, all of client’s siblings and […]

Kind, elderly widower is looking to probate the estate of his late wife. Client’s wife is the deceased record owner. She owned the property prior to their marriage in 2002. Client’s wife died in intestate in 2018, leaving him and her child from previous relationship as her heirs. Client currently lives in this property. A volunteer is needed to assist […]

Client needs a volunteer to help her gain title of her home through a quiet title action based on adverse possession. Client was under the impression that her nephew bought the property through a Sheriff’s sale but upon further investigation, the property is actually owned by notorious landlords who have been involved in several lawsuits in Philadelphia related to their […]