Re: Fathers Estate

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Where a person dies with no will, the state's intestate
succession laws govern.

What was your father's state of residence when he passed?
In whose names were the deeds to the real property? How was
the property held (i.e. Joint Tenants with Right of
Survivorship (JTROS), Community Property (C/P), Joint Tenants
in Common (TIC)?

On 5/18/07, Dave Kohles wrote:
> I have a problem that I am scared there may be no solution
> for. My father passed away seven years ago, when his
> tractor role over. He was fifty years old and left a
> fairly large Estate, but with no Will. I am one of his two
> sons. He was maried to his second wife Carol Kohles, they
> never had children of there owen. Carol (my "stepmother")
> had five sons with her first husband. To keep from haveing
> to sell all my fathers stuff I was told that I needed to
> sighn a letter makeing Carol the Executor of his estate.
> They had my fathers appartments in both he and Carols names
> ( jointly owned) althought I built all the appartments
> along with my father growing up. I never was payed, but my
> father always said " what do you mean you aren't getting
> payed, these will be yours some day" I know my never
> intended on dieing when he did and was concerned about how
> Carol would handle the situation, regarding me if something
> was to happen to him. A long time friend of my fathers,
> came to me after his death and asked me how thing were
> going with my fathers estate and at the time I thought ok.
> Well he contiued to tell me that on a couple different
> ocations my father had dicused with him those concernes.
> Well now i to have those concernes. Seven years after my
> fathers death I am now finding out that Carol has done some
> things that are not right and I think she is going to cut
> me out of everything. She has always whanted her sons to
> have more than me and now I think she is tring to insure
> that that is the case. If anyone has any sugjestions I
> would gladly take what I could get, because i do not know
> what to do!