ATLANTA (InvestigateTV) — An 87-year-old Georgia man will receive settlement payments after his home of more than 50 years was stolen through deed fraud.
Robert Elder lost his late wife, his sight, then his home when someone filed three different deeds on his property in 2023. The first deed was filed in July, then again in August with updated wording labeled “corrective” deed, and once more in September. All three deeds transferred Elder’s house to someone else.
Civil lawsuit and settlement
None of the signatures matched the way Elder signed his name in other official documents. The grandfather said he cannot sign his name straight on a signature line.
In a civil lawsuit, Elder accused his former stepson of being involved. In August 2025, the court signed a judgment agreed to by both parties that said the court found “fraud, larceny and malicious injury.”…