TAMPA, Fla (WFLA) — Bershauna Moore was trying to see the house her late aunt willed to her, when she found a quitclaim deed saying her aunt signed the house over to a company she doesn’t even know.

“My heart dropped because now I felt like being my son is about to be homeless,” Moore said.

The deed appears to show it was made in 2018 but not filed with the Hillsborough County court system until 2022. Attorney Gary De Pury pointed out the issues he saw in the documents, starting with the grantor acknowledgement not being on the same page beneath the signatures.

“That indicates to me that this was just a completely fake page,” De Pury said. “There’s several issues with this deed.”

He said another red flag is in the acknowledgement, as a law went into effect in 2020 allowing remote online notarizations. On the deed, it says, “by means of physical presence or online notarization on January 18, 2018.”

“If I was defending this deed, I would have to explain to a judge how my time traveling notary was able to put on here the foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me by means of physical presence or online notarization, the 18th day of January 2018,” De Pury said. “Why would a notary put something that doesn’t even exist for two more years?”

Moore told 8 On Your Side her aunt was battling dementia in 2018, and she was her caretaker. Her aunt died the same year.

“She paid her mortgage off and everything herself. And it hurts that somebody can do that to somebody that worked that hard, catching buses, you know. And just come, just take somebody with house, (their) livelihood,” Moore said.

De Pury continued with how the notary was stamped in 2018, and said it should’ve expired before the date listed, which is 2026.

News Channel 8 On Your Side went to the Hillsborough County Clerk’s Office about this case.

They sent a statement that read in part, “There is no time limit in Florida limiting when a person can file a Quit Claim deed that’s been properly completed. The Clerk’s Office is required to record properly completed forms, per Florida Statute.”

The office also encourages people to sign up for the property fraud alert system, and they say if homeowners suspect they are victims of property fraud, they should contact law enforcement immediately.

Moore told 8 On Your Side she filed a report with the Tampa Police Department, but didn’t want it to come to this. De Pury said this is not a case he would turn away from, and said he thinks the deed is fraudulent.

Both the attorney and Moore questioned if the addresses of the witnesses on the deed needed to be added, per state law. That law didn’t become a requirement until 2023, a year after the deed was submitted.