Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Illinois

last minute amendment

A man has 2 sons,and a nephew he has raised since childhood,whom he considers his 3rd son. He has a trust, which he has named the 3 equal beneficiaries after his death. He passes away, the sons tell the nephew he's entitled to a smaller percentage than 1/3.They even went as far as to alter a quit claim,with a false notorization,but never filed it.They brought the nephew to their lawyer,and said if he did not accept a payoff (10%ish)in exchange for his 1/3 percentage, they would file an amendment supposedly signed by the father, excluding him entirely. Fearing he would get nothing,he signed,but later revoked it after finding out the father would have had to file it before his death.We are now at a standstill.To fight this in probate would be very costly.Given the fact that this amendment came from nowhere,that they were willing to falsely file a quit claim months ago,how hard would it be to prove the amendment is at the very least,questionable? What would be our chances of getting the original trust,unchanged for 20yrs.to remain that way? If they had this amendment all along like they said,why would they try to make up a fake quit claim form?

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