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Rheina1963
May 26, 2013, 07:36 PM
My mother married my biological father but he then abandoned my mother and me when I was a baby leaving NZ for Australia. He has never paid any child support or money in general to my mother or myself. My mother remarried when I was about 10yrs old but I was never adopted. Do I have any rights to claim any money from my biological father as far as inheritance... etc. Thanks!

Margaret

joypulv
May 27, 2013, 01:46 AM
We need to know when he died and if he had a will.
Also did he remarry, is that wife alive, did he have other children?

cdad
May 27, 2013, 03:43 AM
Were they married at the time you were born?

ScottGem
May 27, 2013, 04:17 AM
You may have a claim if your father is listed as your legal father AND he dies with no will. If he leaves a will you are only entitled to what he bequeaths you in the will.

AK lawyer
May 27, 2013, 04:36 AM
You may have a claim if your father is listed as your legal father AND he dies with no will. If he leaves a will you are only entitled to what he bequeaths you in the will.

If he died in Austraila, a good place to start would be here (http://australia.angloinfo.com/money/pensions-wills/).