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Kala
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My mother mentioned numerous times to both my sister and me that we were included in her latest will. She had a new will done when she & my father purchased more property and moved to NC. She passed away 5 years ago. My father said on the day she passed away that we (as a family) would read the will the next day. The next day, he said reading of the will would not be necessary and that he had everything under control.
He refused to reveal the contents of the will. Several years ago, I went to the Cumberland County courthouse and asked for a copy of my mother's will that my father had filed. It was her original will, done many years ago and half of the will contents no longer applied. My father KNEW that my mother made a new will because we talked openly about her doing so. Was it illegal that he filed her original will (perhaps due to his financial gain? perhaps to avoid giving anything due other family members, etc?) Also, the original will bequeathed monies and material items to family members that my father has yet to acknowledge and fulfill my mother's wishes (albeit this was NOT the correct will). So we have been doubly thwarted by my father's greed.
Did he break the law?
We have not confronted him. We do not want to profit from our mother's death, yet at the same time we do NOT want our father to profit.
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He refused to reveal the contents of the will. Several years ago, I went to the Cumberland County courthouse and asked for a copy of my mother's will that my father had filed. It was her original will, done many years ago and half of the will contents no longer applied. My father KNEW that my mother made a new will because we talked openly about her doing so. Was it illegal that he filed her original will (perhaps due to his financial gain? perhaps to avoid giving anything due other family members, etc?) Also, the original will bequeathed monies and material items to family members that my father has yet to acknowledge and fulfill my mother's wishes (albeit this was NOT the correct will). So we have been doubly thwarted by my father's greed.
Did he break the law?
We have not confronted him. We do not want to profit from our mother's death, yet at the same time we do NOT want our father to profit.
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