Dear Experts
My dad (73 years) expired few months back and it is sad that instead of grieving over his loss I am forced to write this to you.
My parents were married in the year 1963 and I am the only child to my parents. After my marriage, I was separated from my husband in the year 2001 and had to bring up my son as a single parent. I order to support my son I moved to Bangalore in the year 2006 for living and my mother with my father's consent stayed with me in Bangalore to take care of my son. My dad stayed back in Chennai due to his work.
In the year 2007, my dad met another writer's family which was going through some financial problems. My dad tried helping this family by collecting financial help for this family. One lady (divorcee) of this family came forward and said that she will at least cook for my dad in order to repay the help/support my dad had provided them. This lady then requested us that she will stay with my father as she did not feel secured living with her family members. This lady was staying with my dad from the year 2007 until 2013. This lady was conducting music tuitions for her living. since my dad was having good contacts in the society he helped her in getting decent living from this profession.
On the day of my dad's death, this lady showed two empty bond papers saying that my dad had intention of allocating 50% of his earnings to her but he left without doing it. But after two months through a friend of hers she started conveying that my dad had given something in writing to a lawyer that all the royalty and income through his books should belongs to her. We are a close nit family and if my father had such intentions he would have definitely conveyed this to my mother and me. I feel my mother who being the legal wife and heir should inherit this income. This lady also came back to us saying that she was financially supporting my dad and my dad owed a huge sum of money to her.
How do we legally tackle this issue? My mother (73 years) and I are already saddened with my dad's sudden death and this issue is affecting my mother's health drastically.
