My grandpa recently died, he lived in Arkansas. He was married but married when his children were adults and had no children with this woman.
He has a will saying she can stay in the house until she remarries or dies or chooses to move, but then it goes to his children.
My uncle can't find the original will. My father recently did a will up here in our (different) state, and his lawyer told him if you don't have the original, you don't have shit. Lawyer told him it doesn't even matter if you have a copy and know who they prepared the will with, that person can't help.
My parents aren't rich, but they are doing ok financially, they weren't super close with my grandpa. They don't need the money and if a check doesn't magically appear in the mailbox, they probably aren't interested in pursuing it.
My dad actually thought his one sister should get everything since she lived near Grandpa and checked in him/helped occasionally through the years, but that's not how grandpa wanted it split. The old man always talked about who would get what and came up with some crazy percentages for the kids. It's not even that much money. Maybe $150k total for 3 kids. 60/30/10
Any advice my dad can give his sister to help her get the money? That sister has the largest percentage and might actually be interested in trying to get it. The other sibling was estranged and I doubt they are interested in fighting for their 10%.
Wife is mentally declining, done days she's there, done days she's not, and went to live with her son.
We all just assume her son is gonna end up with the money.
Submitted September 19, 2021 at 09:16AM by trees202 https://ift.tt/3hMl2ks
