What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? VA via NM
I am working w/a 42 year old woman w/a ninth grade education. She cleans houses. Recently she shared w/me that she has a trust fund in Virginia w/no understanding of how to access it.
it is a long sordid story and for which she produced documentation and i am inclined to want to help her. Due to a really evil family situation her mother was disowned, but a grandfather left the grandchildren in his will, she is the last grandchild the grandfather knew about.
she has a letter from a lawyer here in NM stating that she does have a trust fund in Virginia and that she might try contacting a lawyer to find out about the 'title' to the land the oil/gas was being extracted from. We have tried to contact this guy and he has not responded, not phones, not letters, not emails.
the family in virginia is evidently well known and are in some kind of litigation right now. she is not interested in becoming a litigant, the money in the fund will more then make her comfortable.
my thoughts are she needs to get a copy of the original will (lost in the family mess) and track down (as inexpensively as possible) the title to this land. She was told the title would annotate what her percentage of the royalties would be.
any words of wisdom out there? i know there are some great brains reading this. she doesn't own a computer and even tho she is sitting beside me now, she has no clue as to what or how i am doing on here.
thanks in advance.
I am working w/a 42 year old woman w/a ninth grade education. She cleans houses. Recently she shared w/me that she has a trust fund in Virginia w/no understanding of how to access it.
it is a long sordid story and for which she produced documentation and i am inclined to want to help her. Due to a really evil family situation her mother was disowned, but a grandfather left the grandchildren in his will, she is the last grandchild the grandfather knew about.
she has a letter from a lawyer here in NM stating that she does have a trust fund in Virginia and that she might try contacting a lawyer to find out about the 'title' to the land the oil/gas was being extracted from. We have tried to contact this guy and he has not responded, not phones, not letters, not emails.
the family in virginia is evidently well known and are in some kind of litigation right now. she is not interested in becoming a litigant, the money in the fund will more then make her comfortable.
my thoughts are she needs to get a copy of the original will (lost in the family mess) and track down (as inexpensively as possible) the title to this land. She was told the title would annotate what her percentage of the royalties would be.
any words of wisdom out there? i know there are some great brains reading this. she doesn't own a computer and even tho she is sitting beside me now, she has no clue as to what or how i am doing on here.
thanks in advance.