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AK lawyer
No.
Has the will been filed with a U.S. probate court?
If not, what would the daughter do? File to probate the will, and ask the court to order her to bury the body in California? Not likely to happen.
No, she needn't postpone the trip. The worst that could happen is that the daughter could file some sort of a lawsuit and the widow, when in the U.S., might be served with process. Not a big deal at all. She could probably be served with process in Costa Rica in any case.