Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in California

Re: Lost will

This question is a little hard to answer without knowing whether he died recently or a long time ago. If he died recently, you have to look among his possession to see if you find a will or a reference to an attorney that he may have used to draw a will, in which case you should call the attorney an inquire. If it has been a while and his estate has been distributed, you go to the Probate Court Clerk's office and look up in the case register to find the Probate Case No. Then you have the clerk pull the file and you look in the file.

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Re: Lost will

Assuming that they are no longer living, you should contact any attorney that they ever used.

You can look through their papers to see whether there's any will.

You can examine their checkbooks/returned checks to see whether there have been payments to attorneys.

You could then contact the attorneys to determine whether they drafted a will and/or trust for your parents.

If there was no will then, depending upon the amount of money and property that they owned you will need to begin a probate.

You should really contact an attorney near where your parents resided upon their death to discuss options.

Let me know if you would like to discuss this.