He’s not going to get FA…
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on paper, my family looks rich. In reality, however, my family has had a lot of turmoil after my dad passed away during Junior year. He was a lawyer and owned a law firm that employed my mother (not as an attorney). My mom does not have a college education and she isn't allowed to own the law firm because she isn't a lawyer (it's a law, I guess). While we have some property, we have been forced to sell some of it just to cut our losses. So far this year she has collected a whopping 6k in income. I'm hoping that later on I could get some money, although I think it's doubtful.
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I am sorry that you’ve lost your father, but it sounds like your family has a lot of assets. I don’t know how the issue with the law firm works, but it doesn’t seem possible that your family could just lose that as an asset.
Did your dad sell the firm while he was ill? He would have likely known that your mom couldn’t own it or run it or whatever the law is in Mich.