My question involves personal property located in the State of: Missouri
My mother deeded some property from our family farm over to my brother after my dad died. We owned some decorative fence that was on that property. We had borrowed some portable gates from my brother and we had asked if he wanted to trade us the portable gates for the fence on the property. At this time, the property was not in my brother's name but still in my mom's name. He finally said he did not want to trade and told us to come get the fence. Before we could go get the fence, his wife told us the land had been put in their name and to never step foot on their property again. She had already called the cops on me to try and get me thrown off the property one time before they even owned it so therefore we have not went to the property again.
Now, they have sent us a certified letter from an attorney demanding the portable gates back along with something else that does not even belong to them (that's a whole other story) and threatening to sue if we don't return the gates. I don't have a problem returning the gates but we want our fence back (it's valued at over $4,000.00). I believe my sister-in-law planned this thinking that they could sue to get their gates back and then also keep the fence. We borrowed the gates from my brother a couple of years ago but the land transfer and the lawsuit threat just happened a few weeks ago. Everyone involved including my mother knew we owned that fence. We also have a few other items still on their property but the fence is the most valuable. This fence is decorative fence that can be removed as a matter of fact they have already taken down a portion of the fence themselves.
Our family situation has gotten completely hostile since my dad died a year ago. My brother, sister-in-law, and my sister have completely taken advantage of my mom and gotten her to deed them almost half the family farm leaving my other brother with nothing and completely alienating my family including my children. We had also asked my mom to please notify us BEFORE she deeded the property to my brother & sister-in-law but she did not. She has kept everything hidden from my one brother and I on purpose since my dad died. We also have some fencing panels still on the land my sister received too. She's just as hostile as my sister-in-law so I'm sure we'll have to sue to get that back too. What are our legal rights? Can we countersue to get the fence back?

