How can I prevent my mother from selling a valuable musical instrument that belongs to me?
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How can I prevent my mother from selling a valuable musical instrument that belongs to me?
I am a harpist and inherited an antique harp from a close friend of my grandmother’s over 15 years ago. My parents divorced a few years later and the harp remained at my mother’s house so that I could have better access to it. My mother said she paid $12,000 in court for the “right to keep the harp in the house” and that she was “protecting it for me.” She has paid for maintenance on the harp over the past 10 years and has been renting it out to other harpists (with my permission) to earn extra money. Now she wants to sell the harp and I am not in agreement with this.
Asked on December 14, 2011 under Business Law, California
Answers:
Steven Fromm / Steven J Fromm & Associates, P.C.
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
You need to work this out with your mom somehow. Your relationship is important here and getting into a fight over an object however precious will be self defeating in the end. Try to work this out amicably, or else you both will be forced to get lawyers to get a solution. That will be expensive, contentious and create even more bitterness and should be looked at a last resort.
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