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!"
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.
It depends on the state. For example, in Louisiana the children are automatically in the will for 50% of what’s left after the wife gets the other 50%.
It can get very complicated because of grandchildren which are still in the mix, too.
The guy died in 1980. Whatever estate he had left was settled and distributed long ago. Now if the man died in 1980 and had no heirs and the state took his assets then maybe a case could be made. Maybe.
Potentially, depending on inheritance and paternity laws. In many instances, the paternity of an offspring born to a married couple cannot be disputed or attributed to anyone other than the husband in the marriage.
According to most states, your father is declared on the birth certificate.
That is your legal father.
Greedy little Bastard. Literally.