My dad has a will. His divorced wife is listed as a beneficiary. Will she inherit?

She will mostly likely not inherit. Probate Code section 6122 automatically nullifies testamentary dispositions to former spouses (such as in a...

How is a life estate made? Can someone be considered as having a life estate just by merely claiming it?

Your father - who presumably purchased the property and maintained it during his life - clearly wanted his girlfriend to be able to remain in their...

California survivorship question.

Per California probate section 6403 states that a person "who fails to survive the decedent by 120 hours is deemed to have predeceased the decedent...

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You need to have an attorney review all of the facts and documents. Were the assets acquired during marriage? With separate or community property?...

Need some advice

You could have been properly denied. If the pension (assuming it survived your father's death) named a designated beneficiary, then the will and...

No. The administrator is legally liable for the distributions (so the attorney wouldn't do it even if s/he could), and must - by law - be...

Beneficiary question for estate in California where probate is being avoided (undesignated assets amount to less than $150k)

Your best route is to get consent (in writing) from all of the beneficiaries to have those funds distributed to you, after they're paid to her...

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Change probate from adminstrator

If your mother's estate went through probate, then there should be an order distributing the house to you and/or her heirs. You'll need to record...

Unfortunately, unless some or all of you are on title to the house, you have no choice but to conduct an ancillary probate ("ancillary" because...

Can we get our granddaughter back

Getting a guardianship where the parents are not wiling to turn over custody is, I believe, a very tough standard to meet. Absent a guardianship,...