View Full Version : How do I find out if I'm in my dead fathers will
beerpongking151
Nov 28, 2007, 11:09 AM
How do I find out if I'm in my dead fathers last will and testament?
charlotte234s
Nov 28, 2007, 03:20 PM
The executor of the state will contact you if you are in the will.
Fr_Chuck
Nov 28, 2007, 05:45 PM
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.
ChihuahuaMomma
Nov 29, 2007, 03:21 PM
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.
Les Swinden
Nov 29, 2007, 03:36 PM
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.
Fr_Chuck
Nov 29, 2007, 05:28 PM
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
ChihuahuaMomma
Nov 29, 2007, 07:38 PM
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.
Fr_Chuck
Nov 29, 2007, 08:35 PM
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
ChihuahuaMomma
Nov 29, 2007, 08:38 PM
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.
ChihuahuaMomma
Nov 29, 2007, 08:41 PM
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.