Coldwater, MI Bankruptcy Law Firms & Lawyers

The bankruptcy process does not transfer title to real estate. In order for title to the property to revert to the seller, you either need to sign a transfer document or they have to go through a legal process to get title. They need to get title to the property to resell it.

You don't specify a in your question what type of tax paid. Different rules might apply to income taxes as opposed to real estate or personal property taxes. Generally speaking the Internal Revenue Service has three years to assess income taxes and the three years begins to run when the appropriate tax return for a particular year is filed. If indeed the taxes you are referring to our income taxes and no income tax return was filed for the period in question, the statute of limitations on assessment would not have begun to run and somebody would be responsible for the taxes. Since you paid other taxes the IRS and or the Missouri Department of revenue may well look to you to satisfy these tax obligations. You may or may not be obligated to pay these and you should retain the services of a tax attorney in this matter.

The devil in these kinds of questions is in the details. For your mother to have transferred the title to the property before filing bankruptcy would have violated a number of bankruptcy laws. Looks like Mom has cut you out of any claim to the property, and since Mom, and not you or your sister, is the probable legal owner of the property, you may have no rights here.