When my wife's mother died, her father remarried less than a year later to a woman that had no children. When she died her niece was the executor. My wife was in the will, but the niece never contacted us (even though we hadn't moved for several years). We only found out about it though one of the woman's sisters (that liked us). We found out about the lawyer and contacted him. We got about 10% of the "estate". That was AFTER the niece bought the house at "fair market value". Her car was also sold (not part of the estate), etc. Did we get screwed out of our "fair share", maybe, but we lived in FL and they lived in RI. Since my wife had no direct relationship with the woman, we felt we had no option but to accept the amount we got. The funny thing is that my wife's father said that he would "take care of her", but we never saw a will and the lawyer that her father used had died years earlier. I'm very sure the niece made out VERY WELL!
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