Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in California

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The distribution depends on her Will. If she did not have a Will, then it is distributed by intestate succession which means that the grandchildren of the deceased children share the interest that their parents would have received. The estate is split six ways - one-sixth to each living child and one-sixth to each group of grandchildren of the deceased children. So if a deceased child had two children, then those two children would split the one-sixth interest. If a deceased child had three children, then those three children would split the one-sixth interest.