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These people are not tenants because the person who allowed them to move in was not authorized. Additionally, there is an issue of elder abuse. Two things need to happen immediately.
Get an attorney (specializing in elder law) and file for temporary guardian of the person and poa of her finances.
Call the police to have them removed since this is not a lt-tenant situation; it is one of elder abuse due to the clutter in the home making it impossible for her to move around and the fact that they are not authorized to be there by anyone having that authority.
1. I cannot believe your husband is sitting back and allowing this to happen. He needs to man up.
2. Call attorney. Now. Last month would have been better.
3. Talk to the sheriff and see what is involved in eviction proceedings. Start eviction proceedings. Unfortunately, in some jurisdictions, the fact that they have established a residency there gives them some sort of weird rights.
I am far from an attorney, but I fail to see how the squatters have any rights whatsoever. It's like if my neighbor's sister told me I could move into my neighbor's house, of which my neighbor is the sole owner. If I moved in that's not "establishing a residence," it's breaking and entering. Hell, what would stop a handyman who has a key to my neighbor's house from telling me I could move in? Can someone explain to me why a lawyer even needs to be consulted in lieu of a call to the police?
Possibly a troll post, but I believe stuff like this does happen, and probably more often than many want to believe. I can't imagine being so passive about a situation like this. If some random folks moved into a close relative's house without permission, I would round up a couple friends and forcibly remove them. What are they going to do...call the police? They are probably criminals or drug addicts or something. I sure wouldn't just let an elderly person basically be robbed of their own home and possibly have their life endangered and just wonder "Oh gee, what should we do?" It's insanity.
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YEs, indeed
