Can someone put title in your name and then state that you owe them money for the property and claim that we verbally agreed to purchase the property for money?
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Can someone put title in your name and then state that you owe them money for the property and claim that we verbally agreed to purchase the property for money?
My aunt put 2 properties in my name and signed my signature to them and is
claiming I owe her money now. She came to my house with deed recording with my husband’s name and mine and they were filled in her writing with our names
spelled wrong and told us she couldn’t gave it in her name and was gifting it
to us. Now she wants to sue me for the property’s back and claims we agreed to
pay 65k for both. We never agreed to any of that. She told us it was going to us
now because she couldn’t keep it and she was giving it to us now. She shows a
pattern of switching her property around and I think she was trying to scam us.
Asked on October 16, 2018 under Real Estate Law, California
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 5 years ago | Contributor
No, she cannot do this:
1) If something is gifted, it is gifted--it now belongs to the recipient, with no obligation to pay. Something gifted may not be retroactively turned into a sale.
2) You cannot be made to pay for or buy something without your consent. You must agree to the purchase.
So if you never agreed to purchase or pay for the property, but instead she put it into your name without you agreeing to pay for it, she gifted it to you--you would own it now and do not have to pay for it.
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