Pennsylvania mother-daughter property feud ends with $245,568 in court awards

A ruling meant to simplify inheritance ended up at the heart of a family property dispute, with a Pennsylvania mother and daughter on opposite sides of a hefty financial disagreement.

A shared property arrangement became a matter of ownership, sale proceeds and the division of money after a house was sold for $262,519.

The Pennsylvania Superior Court’s upholding of separate financial awards for both women has now closed an important chapter of the dispute.A house bought for the convenience of familyThe dispute began in February 2010 when Carole Caples purchased property on South Fifth Street in Whitehall, Pennsylvania, to be closer to her family and to downsize from her Maryland home.According to the Pennsylvania Superior Court, Caples added her daughter Katherine Purcell as a joint tenant with right of survivorship to the deed.