What is the name of your state? New York City
My uncle who was mentally disabled, living on the streets of NYC, and collecting Social Security Disability for his mental illness, passed away April 16, 2003. I only found out about his death earlier this year in 2007 by tracing his SSN on the SS Death Index. I did a google search on his name and located somebody who knew him, I emailed him and he gave me the following information. He told me my uncle was left a trust of over $200,000, but after his death, a lawyer interceded, claiming to be the executor of my uncle's will, and supposedly the money was dispenced to my uncle's favorite synagogue. My source said there was something fishy about this whole thing. He provided me with the name and phone number of this executor lawyer, whom I phoned but he would not return my calls, (what a surprise). That's all this contact knows. I ask you this. Can a will created by such a mentally unstable person (as can readily be confirmed) be acceptable practice? There is even a video of my uncle on YouTube demonstrating his irrational behavior. Aren't I justified assuming my uncle being unfit that, this will was created by coercion and therefore null and void. Shouldn't any money in my uncle's estate have gone to his closest surviving family member, which would have been my father? Unfortunately my father passed away in February 2005 before any of us had known of my uncle's passing. Therefore as his ownly surviving relative, would I not be entitled to my uncle's estate? Is there a statute of limitations on this sort of thing? I live in New Jersey with my mother and this occurred in NYC.
My uncle who was mentally disabled, living on the streets of NYC, and collecting Social Security Disability for his mental illness, passed away April 16, 2003. I only found out about his death earlier this year in 2007 by tracing his SSN on the SS Death Index. I did a google search on his name and located somebody who knew him, I emailed him and he gave me the following information. He told me my uncle was left a trust of over $200,000, but after his death, a lawyer interceded, claiming to be the executor of my uncle's will, and supposedly the money was dispenced to my uncle's favorite synagogue. My source said there was something fishy about this whole thing. He provided me with the name and phone number of this executor lawyer, whom I phoned but he would not return my calls, (what a surprise). That's all this contact knows. I ask you this. Can a will created by such a mentally unstable person (as can readily be confirmed) be acceptable practice? There is even a video of my uncle on YouTube demonstrating his irrational behavior. Aren't I justified assuming my uncle being unfit that, this will was created by coercion and therefore null and void. Shouldn't any money in my uncle's estate have gone to his closest surviving family member, which would have been my father? Unfortunately my father passed away in February 2005 before any of us had known of my uncle's passing. Therefore as his ownly surviving relative, would I not be entitled to my uncle's estate? Is there a statute of limitations on this sort of thing? I live in New Jersey with my mother and this occurred in NYC.