Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in California

Re: mom dies while father gets richer.

I'm sorry to hear about your mother. Unless she owned separate property (assets she entered the marriage with, or received by gift or inheritance), the surviving spouse is entitled to the passing spouse's community property. If your mother left a will or a trust (or both) leaving her share of the community property to someone other than your father, then probate should be opened and/or the trustee of the trust contacted to provide the required notices to the beneficiaries, including the right to a copy of the trust. I'd have to know more, but if the assets were held jointly or as community property, and there was no estate planning, you are not likely entitled to any of your mother's assets.

Re: mom dies while father gets richer.

Yours is one of the first angry, angry, angry messages that I have ever read. This is not your stepfather butcher actual natural father. That was his personality. And I'd take it from the nature of your question that you are well over the age of 22 possibly 230 years old. They shared a life together and in California built community property. You bet your you know what you didn't get anything because your father inherits the community property of your mother and rightly deserves so. I think rather than ask questions of lawyers you would be better off spending your money on a psychiatrist or psychologist to help you deal with your anger problems. Because you haven't told us, or at least to me, anything that gives you any right to any interest in the community property of your mother and father to ensure father inherited and is still living after your mother passed away. My sympathies to you by your mother's death and more importantly my sympathies to you on your anger. By the way, why are you in the family business if you hate him. Go out on your own, make a success of yourself and show him how independent and successful you could be.