Brian Haran Featured in Realtor.com Article

Senior Associate, Brian Haran’s insights were recently featured in a Realtor.com article titled ‘Inheriting a Home With Your Siblings? Here’s All That Can Go Wrong’. The article focuses on attorneys, brokers, and realtors’ insights on what a Reddit poster could do after inheriting a house in 2018 with their siblings, buying them out, and selling it in 2023 when the house’s value has gone up. Towards the middle of the article, Brian Haran shares his insights on what other inherited items siblings tend to fight over.

“Many times, Mom and Dad had a house full of stuff, and over the years, things break or go missing without anyone being at fault,” says Brian Haran, senior associate attorney at Cona Elder Law in Melville, NY. “But in some cases, items are taken by an opportunistic child or family member.”

In these situations, Haran says it’s important to seek the assistance of an experienced elder law estate administration attorney.

“However, it’s crucial to consider whether the money spent chasing down those items is worth the potential return,” Haran warns. “Knowing that someone took some of Mom and Dad’s property and proving they took something are unfortunately two very different matters.”