Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in California

what happened is my boyfriends dad passed away and he had no will and no wife and my boyfriend is the only one so he signed papers verifying he is the beneficiary.His dad had a house and a truck.His dads mom became the executor and the house his dad had finally sold for $296,000 his dads mom filed papers earlier to get the truck out of probate so he has the truck.now the attorney is saying everything was sent to the back to the assessors office.We donot understand why its already been like a year give or take since this whole probate started,why would it go back to the assessors office after the property was sold and not sent to my boyfriend.He is the only heir and no major bills or anything like that.His dad had everything in pretty good order.I hope this makes better sense.


Asked on 10/13/09, 10:56 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
George Shers Law Offices of Georges H. Shers

No, it is not the way such matters are handled. Your boyfriend has to contact the attorney and find out what happened. Before doing that, read through the entire probate file; in many counties you can get that information on line. If you can not, call the probate clerk's office first to see if the file is in storage or not. Then contact his grandmother to find out what she knows. If you still do not have a satlisfactory answer, then contact the attorney as he/she may charge you for their time and if someone made a mistake in the matter it likely is the attorney and not the grandmother. Once you have all the information, you can call me and I will speak to you for about up to 15 minutes without a charge.

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Answered on 10/13/09, 11:04 pm


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