Of course I don’t budwad. We have what we have and that’s it.

What we do have is the creation of a deed with no claim it was anything other than a husband providing for his wife’s accomodationsn once he passes.

We have no suggesrion she had this long drawn out scheme to steal a life estate from him in the home they currently share and have done so for a considerable amount of time. Seriously, why a life estate? Why not half of the interest, or all of it upon his death (jtwros)?

I suggest you might be a bit too skeptical and cynical without anything to support, or even suggest, the wife had ill intent in accepting the deed.


As to a deed being forever;

Of course that was a bit loose. Some deeds are deemed invalid but when a grantor creates a deed with no surrounding issues, they are forever. You don’t get to just rescind a deed because you changed your mind and that is what the op is asking about.

I will stand by my statement that the creation of a deed proves donative intent. The onus to prove otherwise would be upon the grantor. In other words; donative intent is inherent in the intentional creation of a deed transferring interest. If there are surrounding issues (such as the issue where the deed was created in anticipation of a divorce), the grantor has to prove it.