adminBut soon after he died, one of his brothers and my grandparents started demanding that my mother must leave the house. But my mother refused and we have been living there. Now my mother has met another man and wants to get married.
He is really cool and we all get along with him. But now my uncle and my grandparents are starting to cause problems again saying my mother is not a good woman.
They keep on telling me that she will give the house to her new husband so I must tell the court to give my uncle control until I am 18.
The man she intends to marry has his own place, which is bigger than ours and he wants us all to move there. So I do not think he wants our house and I do not trust my uncle. But I am not sure. How can I make sure that the house is safe from everyone?
Since your mother and her friend seem to be the reasonable ones maybe it is better if you talk to them about it. Maybe you can all go to a lawyer and you can get them to sign that the house belongs to you and your brother and sister. What if your mother dies too? Those people will steal your house from you.
Dean Kassim, 17, Belvedere
Your father’s relatives are evil and cruel. They just want to take things that they did not work for and you must never listen to their bad advice.
If your mother has not sold the house and is not even planning to live there when she remarries then I do not think she is will give it to her new husband. If you start listening to your grandparents and uncle then you will begin to have a bad relationship with your mother and the other guy. So just tell them that it is better to leave things as they are.
Morgan Kamurai, 17, New Marimba
You must report these people to the police even if they are your relatives. They are not allowed to harass you or your mother the way they are doing. Everyone knows that when a man dies his property must go to his wife and children.
Even when a woman dies her property must also go to her husband and children. Relatives have no right to demand anything unless there is a will giving them something.
Trish Butau, 19, Westgate
If you people go to the other guy’s place and leave tenants at the house then that should solve the problem. Your mother can get a court order to stop your grandparents and uncle from coming to that house. And as long as your mother’s new man is not living in that house then they have no reason to say rubbish about your mother to you.
Just ignore them and try to get on well with your new stepfather. Maybe he will be like a real father to you, if you do not listen to all this nonsense.
Khadija Patel, 17, Belvedere
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