Did Elizabeth Hanson "Misappropriate" My Inheritance?

Photo credit: Seattle Campaign for Liberty

This is a picture of my half-sister, Elizabeth Hanson . Note on the linked page her interest in "Spirituality." She teaches English as a Second Language at Shoreline Community College in Seattle, Washington and makes over $61K a year.

After the death of my step-Mom, Marilyn Frost, she, along with my half-brother, Robert Frost, quickly sold the family home for $267,000. It was assessed at $378,000 with comparable sales of over $400,000.

There was no probate after this, though we have the same father.

It looks like, it appears that, they took the money and ran with no regard to the fact that we, my sister and me, have the same father as Elizabeth and Robert.

Prior to Dad dying in 1999, he told me he left me something in his will; that I'd get an inheritance after the house was sold and Marilyn's estate was settled.

I've since been told that Dad left no will.

How convenient.

Marilyn's will leaves nothing to my sister and me though it appears that Marilyn may not have actually written her will. It spells my sister's name wrong. It's spelled the same way it was spelled in Marilyn's memorial program, proving that someone other than Marilyn wrote the will because she'd never misspell my sister's name.

And though Marilyn signed it, she was very sick with cancer at the time and may not have read it. If she had read it, she'd have corrected the misspelling of my sister's first name.

Not only did Elizabeth and Robert allegedly deprive my sister and me of our inheritance, they did the same to their niece, nephews and grand niece.

It appears that someone engineered a plan to make sure they got everything.

Instead of being there to help family, did Elizabeth and Robert deprive family?

Is the right example to set for her son, Christopher, that "greed is good"?

Is it right to hide behind the legal system and use it as an excuse to intentionally ignore and dishonor the long held rights of blood beneficiaries?

Elizabeth was given a faculty excellence award last Fall. I'm sure she played the martyr by letting everyone around her know how hard it was to take care of her dying Mom, raise her son and work at the same time.

I wonder if she teaches her students that it's OK to deprive family?

I'd contemplated filing first degree felony theft and perjury charges against them, but it appears that there is nothing I can do.

These transactions may have been perfectly legal, but what happened afterwards was without heart, compassion or honor.

Dishonoring family is just another form of corruption.

Doing it to your own is the worst of the worst.