Freeloading relatives move into your family home and, produce a a deed of ownership, the family was forced our of their own home and can neither refuse them nor evict them.
Your people are nomads and rely heavily on livestock that can be moved as seasons and resources dictate. Most nomads use mounted or use beasts of burden to transport belongings. Nomads organise along family group lines and families stick together.
Destitute: These people are considered the dregs of society. They own no property, and may have no fixed home. Some perform no real work and are often unemployable. Others are in bond to a master and live at his whim.
Pickpocket: During your youth your family fell on hard times forcing you to turn to petty theft and other criminal activities involving you with criminal organisations.
Get out of jail free. A magnanimous ruler pardons all prisoners. If the character, or his friends or relatives are in prison, they are set free with an admonition to "Sin no more."
As an adult you joined a rebellion against the local ruler, if successful you are outlawed, if it failed you escape, with only friends and family knowing your involvement. (Work with your DM to detirmine the details)