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Do I Have A Case Legally For People Having My Dad Sign Over Financial Accounts And Changing His Will While On Narcotic For Cancer And Then Hospice Care.

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Sorry, this is long. My Dad found out he had esophageal cancer in August of 2025. My brother, 38, had been living with him for about 12 years at that point because he wanted to quit his corporate job and take odd jobs with no responsibility. After my Dad said he was planning to sell the house once he was in remission, before my Dad was cleared of the cancer, he perused a stable job for the first time in over a decade. The cancer was in remission for about a month and then spread. The last month of his life, my brother berated him to persue treatment even though he wanted to go into hospice. Once he agreed to continue treatment, my brother left him alone to go on a 10 day trip to Italy. My older sisters live in the area so he just left it up to them to care for him. As time went on, my dad had to have a fentanyl patch to help with his pain. He said he was going to put my brother on his checking account so he could pay the mortgage since he was getting forgetful on the narcotics. A bunch of things stalled him restarting treatment and he soon became too weak and decided to go home hospice. While he was on lorazepam, a fentanyl patch, and morphine through hospice care, he had my Dad sign his car over to him, claiming the other three siblings would get paid for our share of the car. We were told it would be out of his inheritance but then he ended up selling my dad's stock to pay us and paid himself 25% of the price of the car as well. Then he had my Dad change the executor to a family friend and then himself as a secondary option if the family friend declined. This was done in secret from me and my one sister. His girlfriend was the witness and my other sister, who knew about it, had a friend as the notary. My dad was getting worse and the hospice nurse had recommend I come down to see him before he was no longer lucid. The day I was told this was the day they had him change the will and executor. My dad died 5 days later. My Dad died at 3am and my brother went to work in the morning. I spent hat evening with the family friend, who informed me that my brother had also put himself on a brokerage account of my dad's not just a checking account. The next day I was able to go into the account and it had $96k in it that no one else had been made aware of. Supposedly the other siblings and I are supposed to trust he will distributed after all the estate and probate is closed because the executor said "we don't have a leg to stand on if he takes the money and runs". The executor has been very bias and only siding with my brother and other sister. We are trying to sell my dad's house. The will says everything is to be split equally among all of us. Today she said she would be making decisions about listing prices because my one sister and I weren't agreeing with my brother and other sister. I want to know if I have a case to legally do anything about everything that has transpired? If so, what type of lawyer would I consult? I live in North Carolina but everyone else is in Florida. Thanks for you help and reading all this.

Location: Florida

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