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If the house is not in your mother's name, it is already owned by you, one sister and the other sister's estate.  If there is more in the estate than the house, you will have to probate the Will to get it.  Contact a probate attorney who practices in the county in which your mother lived and died.

If your father died without leaving a Will, his property would not pass to his girlfriend or to his brother. If either individual has taken items belonging to your father's estate, they could be found liable for the value of the property taken. If you believe that it would take legal action to correct the situation, you should understand that you would first need to establish your role as an heir of your father. Depending on the value of the property taken, and a whole lot of other factors, the cost of the process might just outweigh the value of the property that you're seeking.

Yes, but there would not be any real advantage to doing this. It would also complicate your estate planning and could frustrate your objectives. One trust should satisfy all your planning objectives.