**Location: Long Beach, California, USA** Of course, context is needed because it is a heck of a story. Last year, in November 2024, my landlord, whom my family and I consider family, passed away unexpectedly. Unfortunately, because of her passing, it came with so many problems that have been causing my family stress. After the holidays, my landlord's cousin filed for a petition to claim ownership of the many properties my landlord owns. I should note that, unfortunately, since she did not have a will or any other legal documentation regarding her properties, everything must go through probate. So we were expecting to wait a long time for updates. Heres where the many problems and the paralegal I mentioned in the title come in. While the cousin was trying to get the paperwork in order, she met this paralegal who claimed to be a friend of my landlord. This paralegal messaged my dad about needing rent money to pay the month's rent, then proceeded to send the first page of the probate case (Mind you, we know how the deed looks, and it was not it), which contained a mistake on her part, as we now have the case number. In a way, we can determine when they go to court, what they are filing, and who's involved in the case. So my dad said no because we learned that you only give rent money to the right owner, in which case, no one is the owner at that time. The paralegal kept demanding money from my dad, and he still refused, then attempted to take matters into her own hands by harassing my family and our neighbors who live upstairs. It got so bad to the point where, thanks to our neighbor, she filed a harassment complaint and snitch (I'm not kidding about this) to the courts regarding selling my deceased landlord's property, like her cars, and throwing away her stuff. Yes, they did get into huge trouble for it, not to mention the judge scolded the hell out of the cousin and paralegal for caring more about the rent money than the properties and the tenants. The drama does get really juicy, where the cousin got really pissed at the paralegal for handling the situation illegally, to the point where she had to hire a lawyer. (In my opinion, she should have done that to begin because of the mess; everything won't get fully resolved till possibly next year, instead of before the holidays 2025.) This is where things took a turn for the worse. Apparently, the courts granted the cousin and the paralegal the authority to become CO-administrator. As a result, they created an agreement stating that we would start paying rent and sent it to the cousin and the realtor while proceeding to find a buyer. According to the cousin, due to the intense family drama that occurred, she agreed to sell all the properties and split the money among the family. Of course, my family panicked, and unfortunately, I tried to contact the local tenant rights organizations, and they were no help at all because technically, we were not getting evicted, and they weren't returning our calls, so we ended up talking to an actual lawyer and spoke with a paralegal business about the meaning behind the paperwork to our relieve we are not getting evicted and what they are doing was correct.... Yes, there's more because the day before, we were going to pay rent. We received new paperwork stating that instead of paying money directly to the co-administrator (cousin) and the realtor, all money must go through the lawyer. Get this, a week or so later. We learn that our neighbor upstairs made a few phone calls to the actual administrator handling the case, and let's say a lot of sh\*t went down. After reporting the paperwork to the administrator, they became so upset about the paralegal's actions that things escalated to the point where the judge ordered a halt on everything, causing the lawyer to drop the case. So we were stuck in limbo for a while. Heres where we are. Due to the situation being handled so poorly, everything had to start over again. However, this time, another family member has become involved and is now fighting for the petition. Before the September case, the paralegal and the cousin had a falling out, and the cousin sincerely apologized to my dad for her actions. During the case, we learned that it was all formalities, including who was getting involved, new rules regarding case handling, and both parties had lawyers. There's a court date coming up this Monday, Oct 13, and heres where we have a problem: we have documents about how the other party is coming to our home and gave us a 24-hour notice on how they would like to inspect the inside of the property, and that they have a contractor to do some repairs. And who's involved in helping that party? You guessed it, the paralegal. My dad did contact the cousin, and apparently, she was **not** aware that they were doing it, and wouldn't be surprised if her lawyer didn't know about this, so she is contacting her lawyer for the time being to see what is going on because it got worse, where she's even more angry that the property is on Zillow without anyone's permission. So, my question is, are we allowed to let anyone inside our home? If so, wouldn't we need a judge to approve? Are there any legal options that we should be aware of? Because we are so lost, because we do want to live in this property, we have lived there for over 30 years, and this case was handled so poorly. I need advice, please ask as many questions as you have, and I'll try my best to answer them. I am at a lose and panicing because at this point we don't know what the future will entailed and we have consider moving just to aviod the sitution but we do want to fight as much as we can to stay in our home.