Posted on 12/08/2019 12:20:14 PM PST by sodpoodle
Last year, at the age of 71, I discovered through an Ancestry.com DNA test that my biological father was a Mr. D. T. Trotta, who was born in 1913 and passed away in 1980 when I was 33. The secret was never revealed to me either by him or by my mother.
She was determined to have a family, but after seven years of marriage to her first husband, she had three miscarriages and no children. I am curious if, after 39 years, there is any chance of recovering an inheritance as a biological heir.
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People around them usually spend all the money
Only if you share it with me.
If he left his money to "my children" then yes.
If he left his money to "My children, Denise, George, and Fred" and you are not any of those people then no.
Most wills do the second. Some include that if one of the named heirs contests the will that they are automatically disinherited.
If your relative was smart like my FIL he left a will that, read, in part "being of sound mind, I spent it all!"
A will is a good thing.
This poor guy was left in the dark - before Maury Povich!
If at age 72 he is looking for an angle then money isn’t his problem.
“I’m lookin’ for pound notes, loose change, bad checks, anythang—gimme some moneeey...!”
Is your name Melvin Dummar? Did you ever pick up a hitch hiker named Howard Hughes out in the desert?
I have a second Cousin whose ancestors were left out after their GGrandfather dies. I don’t think they had a lot of money but did own a fair amount of land.
He went to court maybe 30 years after the death and to my surprise, he won.
I don’t think the rest of the family even cared as some of them were also left out.
I did notice that he and his wife drove a new Corvette. They used to visit us regularly when we lived in Dothan.
My guess is that particularly given the amount of time that's passed you're out of luck. However,only an lawyer who specialized in estate law can be sure.
Interesting. Near a year ago I used Ancestry to try and find my father. Birth certificate is blank on that side. Got one maybe first cousin response. But the interface thru Ancestry was so complicated that I gave up. Somewhere is western Michigan. :<((((((
Might be the founder of the Harlem Globe Trottas, be worth zillions!
I’d be a gazillionaire if all the connections Ancestry.com made from me to famous people on my mother’s side of the family were all true. Unfortunately DNA doesn’t go back farther than five or six generations, so those connections are anybody’s guess.
Well you’re not in the will, sooo....
I’m a descendant of some English king a thousand years ago. Where’s my inheritance?
If you need a response on time period to contest a will then I suggest the link below:
https://info.legalzoom.com/long-person-contest-will-4697.html
Nobody is required to bequeath anyone anything.
I do think that royalties are a separate matter and royalty laws may exist to provide biological, but not legal, children royalties.
The unicorns ate it.
He's supposed to have had two of them, as that was his wont.
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