Attorney Says This Is The Most Wild Case She’s Ever Had. Parents Passed-

I’ll do my best to keep this as to the point as possible. I was taken from my parents when I was 7 and legally adopted by my aunt (dad’s sister). She passed when I was 16.

My parents stayed in my life the whole time but my dad had the typical ultra boomer emotional dysfunction where he was just angry and short fused about everything instead of talking things out.

We would go months possibly years at certain points without talking.

My parents were still together (since teens I believe). When I was 22 (now 39) I got back in touch with them by ordering a wellness check and having the cop tell them to call me.

It was very off and on due to my dad’s anger and my past heartache / abandonment.

In January 2026 the police came and knocked on my door in FL, to inform me my mom was killed in a car accident. The accident found my father to be at fault due to failure to yield plus weather conditions.

I dropped everything and flew to Michigan where they lived. My dad was in the hospital with a broken neck, head trauma, and upon arrival discovered advanced cancer.

My bf and I stayed up there about a week to help with things, his house, the cats, picking up moms things from the funeral home, helping with plans etc.

My dad was very avoidant of the whole situation, told me stop worrying we have plenty of time when I talked about estate planning and my mother’s burial. It had been 10 days since the accident and he said, she’s barely cold! I don’t want to talk about this right now.

He displayed very obvious signs of dementia and I requested a cognitive exam before I left to go home due to work obligations.

Upon my return to Florida, I spoke to my dad twice before he entered a sports rehabilitation facility. That’s when I lost all contact and wasn’t able to reach anyone. I tried calling the hospital, the rehab, anyone I could but nothing.

About a month later my dad calls me like nothing ever happened and told me he had returned home. He informed me that he placed me on the do not disturb list because I was “talking about crazy things”.

A few weeks later he was found on the floor of his house for what is suspected to have been 5-10 days.

The hospital told me he had an oncology appointment while he was in rehab where there doctor told him he was not a candidate for chemo because of his condition, he was too weak.

So… they sent a terminally ill patient, who lost his partner of over 50 years, home ALONE without a care plan? The hospital informed me that 2 weeks after he went home a home care nurse stopped by and he said he didn’t need her so she left.

A couple weeks after that he is found on the floor, he tells EMS to leave and they LEFT! Then returned back after the neighbor ordered a wellness check, then they took him to the hospital.

He coded and they revived him. Then he was vaguely having conversations not making much sense and went to sleep for 3 days until he finally passed 2 days ago.

1. How could they send a terminally ill, 78 year old patient who just experienced 3 traumatic events (partner’s death, head/neck injury, discovering advanced cancer) HOME ALONE?
   - Does this sound like malpractice?
   - Why wasn’t a social worker involved?

2. I have been the emergency contact handling everything for him. I’m expected to make all these decisions since he has passed… yesterday I discover that since my aunt legally adopted me that I’m basically going to have to be in a pool of 100 random cousins he has no relationship with over his house and belongings since he never had an estate plan.
   - Am I completely f*cked in probate?

Bonus fun fact, they never got married.

I never got anything when my aunt/uncle (adopted parents) passed. Feels like it’s happening all over again with my actual parents now.

Location: My parents are in Michigan (Traverse City area).