What is the name of your state? Massachusetts
In my previous post I said my mother passed away without a will. It was drafted up but never signed when she received it 2 days prior to her death. She had two of the five children put on the property deed, with the remaining three to get what was left over in her bank account.
There has since been a change of heart and two of the natural children want to split the estate 5 ways which is according to state law.
My question is that since this has gone to this extreme of not honoring her intentional wishes should the 2 surviving Stepchildren be notified? My father never had a will, when he died my mother just aquired his property and gave a few things out. But now that this has happened are they entitled as well? The lawyer we hired didn't raise issue when I mentioned them to him. Though he did notice the obituary there names as children not stepchildren.
In my previous post I said my mother passed away without a will. It was drafted up but never signed when she received it 2 days prior to her death. She had two of the five children put on the property deed, with the remaining three to get what was left over in her bank account.
There has since been a change of heart and two of the natural children want to split the estate 5 ways which is according to state law.
My question is that since this has gone to this extreme of not honoring her intentional wishes should the 2 surviving Stepchildren be notified? My father never had a will, when he died my mother just aquired his property and gave a few things out. But now that this has happened are they entitled as well? The lawyer we hired didn't raise issue when I mentioned them to him. Though he did notice the obituary there names as children not stepchildren.