Furious kids want to throw their ‘trespasser’ stepdad OUT of his home in bitter row over £600,000 inheritance

A FAMILY is locked successful a bitter enactment implicit a £600,000 inheritance - with kids trying to footwear their 81-year-old stepdad retired of the location he's surviving in.

Michael Morfey's step-children accidental he's staying successful a location that they rightfully ain and person accused him of being a "trespasser".

Michael Morfey, 81, is battling to enactment successful his precocious woman Karen’s £600,000 location aft her volition near him with nothing.

He was joined to Karen Morfey for implicit 18 years, but her 2014 volition near him with nothing.

Instead, her £600,000 location successful Streatham, southbound London, went to her 2 children, Alexander and Emma Davies, who are present demanding that Michael leave, labelling him a “trespasser.”

The quality has escalated to Central London County Court, with Michael claiming the volition ignored his needs and suing for a fractional stock of the location and £25,000 to screen attraction costs.

His barrister, Daniel Soar, argued that Michael is entitled to support up the “standard of surviving helium had enjoyed anterior to Karen’s death.”

The siblings, however, impeach Michael of transferring astir each of Karen’s currency and investments into his sanction earlier her passing, totalling £144,000.

They’re calling into question a bid of transactions, suggesting Karen “lacked intelligence capacity” oregon that Michael “procured the transactions by undue influence.”

According to tribunal documents, Karen’s kids assertion the pensioner “drew up a volition successful his favour down her back” — a determination they accidental reflects a broader signifier of fiscal meddling.

Karen, who was diagnosed with dementia successful 2017, became “incredibly vulnerable” arsenic her health declined, according to the family’s barrister Hazel Hobbs.

Hazel said: "The claimant placed unit connected Karen for a fig of years starring up to 2017."

She argued that Michael “acted successful his ain self-interest” by moving Karen’s currency into his accounts during her last years.

Hazel cited a history of strained household relationships.

The barrister said: “The accusation is that her children didn’t truly attraction astir their parent oregon her attraction towards the end.”

But Hobbs countered this claim, saying emails and texts betwixt Karen’s children amusement they took an “active role” successful her care, with Emma visiting regularly and Alex taking her retired to lunch.

Karen’s children further allege that Michael’s fiscal power dated backmost to 2013, erstwhile helium “seemingly instructed a fiscal readying steadfast to gully up a volition for Karen, leaving her property to him.”

Hazel said: "Mr Morfey, taxable to determinations from the court, drew up a spot successful narration to Karen’s assets for his payment and drew up a will, again for his benefit, seemingly unbeknownst to Karen."

“In an email dated 20 July 2014, Karen raised concerns astir a volition having been drawn up without her being there.

“Further, Karen was truthful distraught astir the spot and the caller will, which was contrary to her explicit wishes, that she stayed with her member and wrote retired a handwritten volition to guarantee that her wishes were carried out.”

According to Hobbs, Karen was “so upset” by this statement that she concisely moved retired earlier returning and changing her volition successful 2014, designating her location to her children.

Michael denies these claims, stating that helium lone acted successful Karen’s best interests and calling the funds “funds of the marriage.”

His barrister argued that from 2016 to 2020, Michael contributed “nearly £18,000 much than Karen,” showing helium had been supporting her financially, alternatively than draining her assets.

Karen’s children stay resolute, describing Michael arsenic a “trespasser” successful their mother’s erstwhile location and seeking a tribunal bid for him to leave.

But Michael denies each the allegations and said: “When Karen was diagnosed, it seemed to maine they should person realised that they needed to support successful interaction a spot more.

"In the years starring up to her diagnosis, her girl seldom phoned her and Karen would often accidental she was disquieted that determination was precise small interaction betwixt her girl and herself.”

Michael said PR executive, Alexander Davies, had made much of an effort to enactment his mum, but claimed helium had to rally some siblings during a pub gathering successful 2020 erstwhile helium told them they needed to “step up” and enactment their mum.

In his last arguments to the court, Michael's barrister pointed retired that the 81-year-old had “cared for Karen precise diligently during her illness”.

He had considered funds successful some their accounts to beryllium “funds of the marriage" and “he was doing what helium thought was champion for them both”.

The justice has reserved his determination connected the case, leaving Marvellous Mike’s future successful the home—and successful the estate—uncertain.

It comes aft a mum and girl were locked successful different bitter enactment implicit a whopping £7.5million inheritance.

Elsewhere, a lawyer alleged to have helped exclude 2 siblings from their millionaire father-in-law's volition admitted his recollection of events from earlier their father's decease was "possibly" wrong.