I have been taking care of this woman for two months now. She has breast cancer and liver failure. She doesn’t drive so I take her to appointments and bring her things like dog food for her dogs. She recently won a very big lawsuit in the millions from a bus company. She had told me she is going to give me a good amount of money.
However she has PTSD and extremely bipolar and she switches on people in a snap. She didn’t answer my messages for a while and I thought she might of died so I went to go check on her but she locked the door and started yelling at me through text and saying she is not going to put me in her will. for about two weeks now she is emotionally destroying me , because every other day I beleive I will get a million dollars and the next day I believe I won’t , the back and forth is making me sick. Is there anything I can do legally?
Current state: Florida
Getting paid after taking care of a woman that promise to pay
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People can change their mind anytime they want. I would just run as far away from this. Start fresh somewhere else. You don’t need to be on the hook. Sounds like she’s dangling a carrot for you to chase. The emotional up-down isn’t good for you. Take care of you first.
Unless she has written you into her will, there’s nothing you can do legally. And even if she DOES write you into her will, if she has any family you can expect them to contest it, citing her mental illness.
I would be interested to know the timing of her winning that lawsuit and you starting to help her, as her “friend”.
I believe you won’t get anything without any agreement form.
No it’s not your money
I never said it was my money, She told me she would give me money, I didn’t force anything on her
You are not entitled to it and she’s clearly not mentally all there and her power of attorney is in charge of her money
Time to find a new job and move on.
No, unless in legal form you don’t get anything
As a caregiver u can’t inherit.
No. If you get it you get it. Leave her alone
Nope, you are not owed anything from her settlement.
Nal but I watch a lot of court TV.
From my understanding, just her saying she’s going to give you money does not constitute any kind of a contract and she’s not under any legal obligation to give you anything even if she said she would.
If she said she would pay you for your help then that could be an enforceable contract but you would need some kind of proof like emails or text messages saying exactly how much for exactly what services rendered.
It sounds like this woman is very mentally ill. It’s understandable if you don’t want to spend your time taking care of some crazy lady and you should probably stop if it’s making you crazy too. Let her hire some help that’s trained to deal with these things. But I don’t think you can legally get any money out of this
I don’t know the estate laws in your jurisdiction but generally or at common law, a potential inheritance is a future possibility, not a vested right, absent trust language to the contrary. As a caregiver, you may have some cause of action in contract law for work you performed (note “may”) but it’s unlikely you could sue to enforce a promise from a sick or dying elderly person. From the information you provided, it also sounds unlikely that she has the capacity to bequeath anything so taking any gift from her may be wrongful, in the sense that she’s an incapacitated elderly woman and you were in a caregiving fiduciary role. All states have statutes protecting vulnerable people, specifically vulnerable elders, from fiduciary abuse.
NAL & without attacking you like others. No,there isn’t anything you can do. She didn’t write anything up in any legal binding forms,nothing filed. She’s free to change her mind on something she verbally mentioned she “would” do. She’s an ill person who’s going through a lot,and I wouldn’t be surprised in how she’s acting also given her mental Dx with her other life altering ones. I would honestly leave her with information to get a caregiver to assist her,then carry on with your life.
I’m sorry so many people are such a holes. I guess they missed the part where she said she would and then flipped the script. I prefer people actually do WHAT THEY SAID they would do too. I get it. Unfortunately, most people don’t and you really have to adopt some kind of “I’ll believe it when I see it” or “whatever” attitude. It helps. I wouldn’t work for her or befriend her anymore. Let people go that are no good for your soul.
I disagree with most of you. If I didn’t care about her I wouldn’t of took care of her for so long , the most she gave me was $100 for gas. I also wouldn’t of checked on her to see if she died. I guess most of you won’t understand what it’s like to be within a hair of a million dollars and have it pulled away from you everyday. It’s torment
NAL but you can’t sue for anticipation of a gift. She never actually gave it to you so no. Look at it like this: if i told my mom i would give her 20 dollars (for no reason) and never did, she couldn’t sue me because i never followed through with the gift. If i said “i will give you 20 bucks to pay you back for ______” that would be a repayment of a loan. But just saying “im going to give you this gift” is NOT an enforceable contract