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Hope this is not too long, i did search the site and couldn't find anything. My husbands mum died 7 years ago. Before she died she made a will leaving the house to my husband and his brother. When she was pregnant with my husband her husband left her and was never heard from again. My husband never met him, and he never gave any money toward his keep, school, etc. Now the solicitors say that he (husbands father) is entitled to one third share of the house. The solicitors tried to locate him and couldn't. My husband set a registered letter to his last known address (uk), a week later he got a phone call from nursing home in england saying that his father was there, suffered a stroke and has dementia. He is nearly 80. He can't sign anything because he has no understanding of what he would be signing, he has no family at all, no visitor even. How can sombody who disappeared 40 years ago be entitled to anything? This has been going on for so long, and now somebody wants to buy part of the garden and we can't sell. Also we want to take a mortgage out on the house (needs a lot of work) and we can't so that either. Anybody got any advice? Thanks