‘Her friend invited her parents and sons to see the house that she is going to inherit, and when my aunt heard about it she was furious.’
She has a house that is worth $1.2 million. I am her only relative. I usually see her once every two weeks — I live about 25 miles away — to take her food and help her with her house upkeep. Also, I am the only one that visited her when she... Dear Quentin, I have an aunt who is 88 years old and not in good health.
Also, her friend invited her parents and sons to see the house that she is going to inherit, and when my aunt heard about it she was furious. This so-called will was written over 20 years ago and no one, including my aunt, knows what was written.Frustrated Nephew “The specific language of the will and the trust agreement will set forth how the gift of the house was made to these four beneficiaries,” said Neil Carbone, partner at Farrell Fritz, P.C. “If the gift was conditioned on a beneficiary surviving the aunt, then the gift, by its own terms, would lapse with respect to the predeceased nuns.”
“The first is that a beneficiary’s gift can only pass down to the kindred of the decedent, making it so that property can stay within the family,” Feldman writes in her analysis. “This means that if the decedent left assets to a friend, the friend’s family would not obtain the inheritance.” And if no will can be found? “If the testator dies with the will among their possessions and the will cannot thereafter be found, there is a strong presumption in New York law that the testator intended to revoke the instrument,” according to Regina Kiperman, a New York probate and estate-planning attorney.
“If your aunt desires to change her will, most states have laws and ethical guidelines for attorneys regarding determining a person’s capacity to understand and appreciate the process and consequences of making a will,” said John Kenney, an attorney in Poulsbo, Wash.