
Urgent! Help Michelle Save Her Mom's Precious Memories
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Hi! Let me just say first of all, I appreciate you taking a moment to check out my story. My name is Michelle and I am desperate to save what's left of my 86-year-old Mom's life. She is about to lose everything, through no fault of her own, and she deserves SO MUCH MORE than this!
You see, I was my parents' caretaker for 10 years, had taken care of my Dad until his last breath, and promised him I'd do the same for my Mom. My parents had done their due diligence, so they thought, and had made sure to go to a very well-known elder law attorney in 2018 to secure their final wishes and all the documents needed for their life estate planning. However, once my Dad passed away, almost immediately another family member started her plan of changing all of my Mom's final wishes because they did not include her, and she was adamant that my parents owed her for all the things she had ever done for them; apparently, nothing was from the goodness of her heart, and she was determined to make sure she got paid back one way or another.
Basically, to make this long story a lot shorter, fraudulent paperwork was created, and she made herself the POA, changed the deed to the house to add herself, cut off my Mom's access to her own money and bank accounts (I had to pay all house bills, groceries, necessities, prescriptions, doctor visits, basically anything my Mom needed or wanted for several years), and she ended up shoving my Mom into a nursing home against her will (after literally kidnapping her several times and making me fight tooth and nail to get her back each time) and a year-long battle of back-to-back attempts at eviction to try to remove me from my Mom's home in her attempt to sell it behind my Mom's back.
After going to court about 8 times and defeating her, the last court date was a series of unfortunate events causing me to not show, and she won by default.
The house now sits vacant and I have been homeless for about 10 months. That family member realized after the fact that she, by law, couldn't sell my Mom's home without the government taking the money. Now she is cruelly waiting for my Mom's passing to sell the house and make her money. In the meantime, she emptied the house completely and threw everything away; all my parents' possessions are gone from their marriage of 56 years, except for the ones I was able to grab during my eviction. Thankfully, that included a big chest of family photos, items from grandparents and great-grandparents that had been handed down, things my Father had made, and some of my Mother's personal stuff. I don't have pictures of it all, but you can see some of it in the ones I posted. A lot of my things at the time were illegally given away or stolen before I had the chance to claim them, but I was more devastated about the family heirlooms that were just thrown out to the trash without any thought at all as to what that would mean to my Mom and me.
Which leads me to why I am starting this cry for help. I'm desperately asking you to please consider helping save what's left of our family history and of my Mom and Dad's marriage of 56 years, for my sweet Mom's sake.
All of the remaining things that I was able to save for my Mom and to pass on to the rest of the family (her grandchildren, etc.) and the only items I have left to my name are all in a storage facility that goes to auction on April 30th. I have kept up with the monthly rent, while being homeless, with help from my cousin, until the last couple of months. I owe just over $800 with past due rent and their astronomical fees. My plan is to try to raise funds to pay it, go through it, and sell my things to downsize and rent a much smaller and cheaper unit to secure my Mom and Dad's things to make sure they aren't lost while I fight to get my Mom's house back for her.
I'm really freaking out though with the deadline so near and am so afraid of losing the very last of my family's history!!!
Any help you could provide, even if it's $5 or $10, is greatly appreciated. Anything at all, including saying a prayer for us, would be a blessing in itself. I just can't fathom having fought so hard to keep it all, what's left anyway, and then losing it and my Mom having absolutely nothing left from her 86 years of life. It hurts my soul to think she would have no memories left of her life with my Father. Please, if you're able to, please help me save my Mom's memories. Also, any possible funds that might exceed the goal will be used toward the legal battle to get my Mom's home back for her.
I know it's been a long story, but I thank you for taking the time to read this and considering us for your donation.
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Michelle Durbin
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Dallas, TX