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  • Nov 28, 2007, 11:09 AM
    beerpongking151
    How do I find out if I'm in my dead fathers will
    How do I find out if I'm in my dead fathers last will and testament?
  • Nov 28, 2007, 03:20 PM
    charlotte234s
    The executor of the state will contact you if you are in the will.
  • Nov 28, 2007, 05:45 PM
    Fr_Chuck
    Read it, Who is over the esate, is there an attorney handling the estate, has it gone to probate court ?
    Are you sure there is a will, has someone found the will.
  • Nov 29, 2007, 03:21 PM
    ChihuahuaMomma
    Has the will been notorized? If not, it's void. My father wrote his will a few weeks before he passed, and his "new wife" was supposed to get it notarized and didn't. So she got everything, and my sister and I got nothing. Not even family pictures that we so desparately wanted.
  • Nov 29, 2007, 03:36 PM
    Les Swinden
    Each will has to go through PROBATE before it can be executed and the PROBATE OFFICE keeps records of all wills. You can ask for a copy of ANY will, you do not need to be a relative or an interested party. The copy will be given or sent to you for a small fee. I think, about £15.
  • Nov 29, 2007, 05:28 PM
    Fr_Chuck
    No, not all states require a will to be notorised, only witnessed, and some states don't even require the witness, some allow video wills, other don't.
    Each state has its own laws. So a will is not void just because it is not notorized it all depands on where it was written,
    Actually I searched and did not find a state that required notorised, but did find Vermont requiring three witness. I will assume you checked this with your own attorney and challenged it in probate court
  • Nov 29, 2007, 07:38 PM
    ChihuahuaMomma
    I was 15, so no, I did not... I didn't know much about this... I was however told that it would not be valid unless notarized, because he was not the one that wrote it... he just dictated it.
  • Nov 29, 2007, 08:35 PM
    Fr_Chuck
    Yes unless he wrote it, or had it typed ( some states require it be typed now)

    But then the person trying to keep things often lie, and family fighting over money is so common and sad. I hope you will get some of the family things latter
  • Nov 29, 2007, 08:38 PM
    ChihuahuaMomma
    I didn't care about the money... I wanted pictures...

    I won't get anything, the evil woman has sold everything by now... she is nowhere to be found.
  • Nov 29, 2007, 08:41 PM
    ChihuahuaMomma
    Scottgem, the attorney told us that if there were not two witnesses, and there weren't two unbiased witnesses, that it had to be notarized.

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