Lawyers, I need your advice. [View All]

[gkdmaths]

So, my problem is humorous, Im sure you'll agree; at the same time it is dire. I am a scientist, not a lawyer; but I have common sense.

I have an ex girlfriend of 10 years whom I terminated my relationship with in February. We are friends and I am fulfilling my duties, extraneous to this conversation.

She has a brother who has always alienated and abandoned us and the rest of the family. He and I were friends before his sister and I got together. He and I were not friends after we got together, this is beyond the point, though.

The facts: My ex girlfriends father passed away from cancer the year before we got together.
My ex girlfriend has severe and demonstrable obsessive compulsive disorder that dominates the decisions she makes, but she is recovering and making progress currently. I left her because I realized that I was more of a facultative enabler than anything else and she needed to learn how to stand on her own two feet. Since we've parted, she's made significant strides and I am proud of her! Only her mother knows that she's got OCD, not her brother. These are her wishes and I respect them. Her brother also doesn't know that we have split up. This is also her wish and I respect it.

I got an email from her brother last week asking to "talk". I told him that he could email me, but he wanted to chat on the phone. I don't have a phone and our conversation ended. He emailed me again tonight saying that he's suing his sister for some property she has that their father left "him" when their father died. I have no idea what it could be, but he said it's worth was such that it constitutes felony theft and that I'd be involved by default (not knowing that we're not together anymore).

I'm most concerned with her recovery and the impedance to such recovery a lawsuit and loss of something valuable to her might entail (whatever she has that their dad left "him").

Is there any privacy law regarding significant and demonstrable mental illness that might halt his attack on his sister?

He really is a hollow republican shell of a person and has always been this way. He's usually just stayed out of our way and not been a problem. She is ill. It is easily demonstrable. Her wishes are that he not know that she is ill nor that we've broken up.

If he sues her it will set her back to the beginning of her recovery, which is something that she just began and is doing so good! I couldn't bear to see her make such progress and have her brother ruin everything because he's a complete dick (which he is).

any info is helpful. I cant afford an attorney unless I need to.

thanks in advance.