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This just makes me sick....



A Connecticut mother reportedly received an unusual gift for her 98th birthday from her eldest son -- eviction papers.

Mary Kantorowski, who has lived in the same Southport, Conn., home since 1953, is now facing eviction from her yellow, Cape Cod-style home valued at $333,410, the Connecticut Post reports. Her son Peter Kantorowski, 71, a retired taxidermist, said he's doing it for her own good.

"She would be better off living with people her own age," he told the newspaper.

According to Probate Court records, Mary Kantorowski and her husband, John, agreed to transfer the house to a trust administered by Peter Kantorowski on the condition that Mary would live there until her death, and upon her death, the house would go to Peter and his younger brother, Jack, the newspaper reports.

In July 2005, however, Peter Kantorowski quitclaimed the house from that trust to another he and his wife control, giving him ownership of the house. Six years later, in Dec. 13, 2011, his mother's 98th birthday, Peter Kantorowski had his mother served with eviction papers.

"This is just a despicable situation," said Richard Bortolot Jr., a Stratford lawyer appointed by Fairfield Probate Judge Daniel Caruso to represent Mary Kantorowski. "Mary has been living here happily paying all the expenses for the house and now her son, Peter, comes along and is telling her, 'Get the hell out,' so he can sell it."

A trial on Peter Kantorowski's efforts to evict his mother is scheduled for March 2 in Superior Court in Bridgeport, the newspaper reports.

"My husband worked hard, difficult jobs to buy this house," Mary Kantorowski told the Connecticut Post. "He built the garage and did a lot of work on the house and he told me never to leave it."


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There had to be a better way to do this.. I mean, if Mom needed to be in a nursing home or needed constant care but wouldn't agree, I could see having to take drastic measures. But eviction? and Quitclaiming the house out of the trust and into his and his wifes name,,, that smacks of other issues... Where is the other son in all this?

Sounds like to me the son wants to sell the house and get the access to the money for what ever reason before he kicks the bucket.

I dont know if any of you have been through the nursing home, medicare, selling a house thing. But if she absolutely needs to be in a nursing home. I could see how this might be his only option to keep the house money and not have it all go the government. I am not saying this is the case. I just think it is a possibility that he has her best interest at heart.

Sorry, but he should be doing whatever he can to help make his mother as comfortable as possible.

She no longer owns the house, so it's not in play as far as Medicare nursing care is concerned. At 98, I would be doing whatever I could to make my mother as comfortable and happy as she can possibly be. If she is happy there, in here home, then it's not up to him to decide if she would be happier "with people her own age".

I have watched 4 different relatives, who legitimately could no longer care for themselves, pass within months of going into a nursing home. It was like giving up to them, even if it was the best thing for each of them at the time. They were all such independent people, that I think that they each just gave up when they lost that independence. I would almost bet that a similar situation would await this lady, as she has such a strong connection to her home.

IDK, She's 98 years old how much longer is she going to be on this Earth. I think she earned the right to live/die how and where she wants.

But from the Article the house was issued to a trust with the stipulation she could live there till she died and then the house would go to her sons. The oldest son transferred the house to a different trust that involves his wife and immediately took ownership of the house and is evicting her.

ah, this is like 15 minutes down the road from me...........

I'm not sure how I feel about this. I wonder if there's tax implications involved.

But in the end, it's his mother's house, and his father wanted her to stay in it as long as she wanted. Doesn't really matter what got transferred how, the son should see to it that she can finish her life there, especially if there's equity in the house.

Get a reverse mortgage if need-be and pay a live in or go to your home nurse, and have her take care of her.

Old people are set in their ways, but that needs to be respected. If she doesn't want to go to a nursing home, and she theoretically can financially support a way so she doesn't have to, then she shouldn't have to.

Don't steal your mom's house and evict her............ It's not something to profit on, let her live her life.

The old lady should agree to go to a nursing home then before she leaves light a match to the house .

"It's not a nursing home, it's a retirement community!" - Tony Soprano

This guy is slime, utter freakin' slime.

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They could get caregivers that come to the house as well.

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That's what I was saying, she's 98 years old. Worse comes to worse, get a reverse mortgage on the equity of the house (especially since he seems ready to sell the thing), and get her a care giver

He needs to stop looking at the house as his, and recognize that it's his mom's house