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Originally Posted by barry12345
Almost impossible for a squatter to pay any property tax unless the owner authorizes it and it would be the whole bill I expect. The squatters do not have their own property numbers to pay against.
You mentioned he seems to have some money. Personally I suspect he may have gotten worried about the whole situation and is communicating this with your mother. A lot of us procrastinate on occasion but this solves nothing usually. That is exactly what I expect he has been doing perhaps not knowing what to do.
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You're probably right. I can imagine the property tax on 360 acres of timberland would be not trifling. Probably more than they could come up with.
My mother indicates that he does have some worry going on. He has some sort of will but spoke to her about changing it shortly before they were married. I hope he gives her something because if nothing else, she's providing value in being a full time caregiver, I mean not now, but likely later. She's pretty fit and likely to outlive him. For him to land a wife at that age is sort of a coup, not to be crass about it, and I suspect if he was indigent, it wouldn't have happened.
OTOH, if relatives felt she got too much, could be some tension. It sort of sucks to even think about this stuff but it is reality.