I need information on the State of Virginia.
My mother passed away several years ago and my father has remarried. They live in the home my mother and father built. It is located on part of a farm that has been in my mother's family for a couple of hundred years.
We (the children of my father & mother) have no problem with a life estate for my fathers second wife (my stepmother). However, we want to be sure that the farm from my mother's family is passed on to us and not to my step-mother's children. Everyone is very friendly right now, but we fear that after my father's passing this could change.
What actual legal rights does my stepmother and her children have to this property following the death of my father? The property is in my father and my mother's names. My stepmother's name is not involved in ownership at all.
Thanks.
My mother passed away several years ago and my father has remarried. They live in the home my mother and father built. It is located on part of a farm that has been in my mother's family for a couple of hundred years.
We (the children of my father & mother) have no problem with a life estate for my fathers second wife (my stepmother). However, we want to be sure that the farm from my mother's family is passed on to us and not to my step-mother's children. Everyone is very friendly right now, but we fear that after my father's passing this could change.
What actual legal rights does my stepmother and her children have to this property following the death of my father? The property is in my father and my mother's names. My stepmother's name is not involved in ownership at all.
Thanks.