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I will attempt to clarify a confusing situation regarding a property owned by my mother and father. My father passed away 2 years ago, before his death, he and my mother were divorced. My father continued to live in their home, upon my father's death, my mother was on paper, the sole owner of the property again. My sister and brother in law were losing their home, so everyone agreed to allowed her and her husband and child to move into mom and dad's house. My sister who moved into the house happens to be named after my dad and on several past and present occasions, had falsely used my dad's information to portray herself using my dad's social;i.e. truck title; car loan, etc. My sister had lied to her husband making him think that the house had been given to them but it had not. My sister passed away suddenly leaving my brother in law and neice in the home. My mother had still been paying land taxes and home insurance on the home and had no real problem with the brother law remaining in the house to raise our neice. Because my brother began operating as if he owned the house, my mother went to court to prove that she in fact owned the house and any lies my deceased sister had told him were false. during that process, it was agreed that the brother in law could continue to live in the house but my mother would draw up some kind of rental agreement and charge him a small fee to continue to live in the house and raise my neice because she had had enough trauma in her life having found the body of her deceased mother. Because my brother in law was basically unemployed, mom gave him several months to secure a decent income before enforcing the monthly monetary amounts because he was keeping the property up and my mom knew she would never move back to the home. My sister died in June, clarity on who owned the house came in August, my brother in law went to jail in February for 2 and half months, during the time of his incarceration; my neice was moved to his relatives' home and the house sat unmonitored. Prior to the brother in laws incarceration, the local police department had contacted my mother stating that there had been suspicious activity in and around the home and they informed her that they would monitor the traffic and they felt it was drug activity. My mother informed the police that in fact if they could prove this suspicious activity was drug related, she wanted them to proceed, giving them the authority to pursue the monitoring and confirm or deny drug related activity. After my brother n law was locked away they were able to confirm some suspicions and suggested that my mother proceed with an eviction notice. She served the eviction notice and met my brot n law in court; his main argument was that they never had a landlord tenant agreement and she cannot evict him. DOES SHE HAVE THE RIGHT TO EVICT HIM FROM HER HOME; IF THERE IS NOTHING IN WRITING AND CAN SHE CONTINUE TO HAVE THE HOUSE BOARDED UP ONLY ALLOWING HIM ENTRY TO REMOVE THEIR PERSONAL ITEMS?