I need a Lawyer.

So I have to find a lawyer.  First thing I am going to do is write down the problem here so that the issue is stated clearly.

My parents always said that thank God, if something happened to them, I would be taken care of because they put away enough money.  Well that didn't happen that way.  On the contrary, I found myself, as a young woman of eighteen thrown out on the street without a penny to my name.  I am only realizing this now.  I must have been given a severe head injury at the same time everything was taken away.  So  I did not really know what was going on.  But now with rest and food, the memory is coming back.  And the question is, what to do?

The problem is, as I see it in retrospect, is the whole concept of fluid capital.  If capital is too fluid, it can be taken away.  And everything was, by horrible assailants.


First of  all the whole saving for the future  thing, ( i.e. thank god, we have a nest egg for you in case something happens to us you won't be penniless)  breaks down if your parents are murdered like mine were. Sometimes, crime is just a beginning to acquiring wealth.  The question remains: How do you make a penniless orphan?  Well you just have to have their parents save a nest egg for them in case of their death, and then take the whole thing away: house, car, stocks, bonds, jewelry, future, you name it.

So back to the thought that started this whole issue.  The moneys not enough.  Promises are not enough.   The whole situation replays itself at this time again.  When my father died a few years ago he said that I would have a forty thousand dollars a year for life to live on when my mother dies.  But that's all that was said.  He said that there is a will.  My brother says that there is no will.  And I was told that if there was I cannot read it until my mother dies.  What a great surprise to look forward to.

My brother is so hostile just occasionally that I can really believe that he will  leave me without financial support at all when my mother dies. He says he will do this all the time.  Not a penny, he says.  So the question is: how do I prepare for this. 

And the concept is: I need a lawyer.  I need a lawyer to tell me how I can find out if I will be financial secure upon my mothers death?  Or I will be, in my sixties, totally penniless.  What a drag.  But I need a lawyer.