"If You Take Care of Me, I'll Give You My Deceased Ex-Wife's House"… Dangerous 'Inheritance' Deal Between an 80-Year-Old Uncle and His Nephew

After Twilight Divorce, Wife's Death... Forging House Documents for Inheritance Deal
Uncle Sentenced to 6 Months, Nephew to 4 Months Imprisonment

An uncle in his 80s and his nephew in their 50s were both sentenced to prison for forging real estate documents in the name of the deceased ex-wife and transferring them to the nephew on the condition of taking care of him.

According to the legal community on the 1st, Judge Park Kang-min of the Criminal Division 6 at the Seoul Eastern District Court sentenced Bae (85), who was indicted for forgery of private documents and use of forged private documents, to six months in prison with a one-year probation, and Oh (58), who was indicted on the same charges, to four months in prison with a one-year probation.

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Bae is accused of conspiring with Oh to forge a donation agreement certificate stating that the apartment and house owned by his ex-wife A, who died after divorcing him in late May 2021, would be gifted to Oh on the condition that Oh would take care of him.

A divorced Bae in March 2021 and died two months later in May without any direct heirs. However, the death was not reported immediately after the death, and the heir B reported the death in April of the following year.

While Bae was married to A, he was entrusted with the authority to enter into lease contracts related to A’s real estate, but after A’s death, he was not entrusted with the authority to enter into lease contracts by the heir B.

Nevertheless, Bae is accused of forging and issuing monthly lease contracts in A’s name for three houses in June 2021 and February and March of last year.

In July of the same year, he is also accused of filing a provisional injunction to prohibit the disposal of real estate in A’s name, who was already deceased, as the defendant in a civil lawsuit, citing donation as the reason, and submitting the agreement to the court.

Judge Park stated, "I considered the fact that they admitted their wrongdoing, that both are first-time offenders with no prior criminal records, and their relationship with A during their lifetime in sentencing."

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