My husband owns 20% of his mother’s house and we need to know exactly what rights he has. We have two concerns right now that tie into each other and we feel that no to be approached; the first thing is that my husband has three younger siblings that live with the mother, the older one of the three has already left the house to get away from things that are going on there including drug use and selling, and physical abuse to the children including her. The oldest one of the two that are still there has been talking to her counselor at school about things that go on at her house and her counselor is having her keep a written log of things that happen. She also told us that her step father keeps a loaded gun that him and the multiple other people living at the house (who the kids do not know) will get out and handle while they are under the influence and her step father had been arrested before and is not allowed to have a gun. She also says that they never have food because the other people living there and random people that stop by eat all of the food. I know CPS has been involved at least once. The kids are scared to do anything like call the cops because they think that if the cops come and don’t take them away that they will get beat and things will just be worse. There are a few possibilities as far as to where the kids could live, but they just want out of there. Our first question is does my husband have any legal rights as far as having the house searched or watched? Are our second question is if that happens or if they get caught, what happens to the house? This is only the brink of things, the kids and other family members are very concerned for their safety, we need help before something really happens and who know when that could be, that only positive thing of this is that it hasn’t happened yet. We would really appreciate some advice. Thank you for your time.

