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When we did some back tracing, we found that there was another account that this aging parent had. We started doing some documentation. We traced the deed of that house. It was in the LLC. Okay. That LLC, the principals were this couple, were the siblings and the spouse of the sibling. Okay. Well, now they own the house. There was no mortgage on this house. It was a three dollar house with no mortgage. About seven months after the last parent died. Well, this estate supposedly had about two hundred and seventy dollars. It was distributed to 3 siblings. Our client, this other sibling who bought the vacation home and a third sibling. So they each got about $90,000 from the estate. And they thought that was pretty good. But the estate was closed. Well, when we did some back tracing, we found that there was another account that this aging parent had. It was a retirement account that had about $400,000 in it. And it all of a sudden disappeared. We went back through the records and we found that the wire transfer that went to the payment to the closing of this vacation home came from an account at Charles Schwab. And we knew that this couple didn't have a Charles Schwab account. The parents did. And sure enough, they cleaned out this account to buy a vacation home and they overfunded the escrow. And so when the escrow was closed, they just gave the money to the sibling.