Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Illinois

Hire a probate attorney. Get appointed as executor (if there's a will) or administrator (if not) of your mother's estate. Then in that capacity you can file adversarial claims against those who may have taken advantage of your mother's estate. As to your mom's husband, it depends whether you are legally entitled to act as executor or administrator of his estate and that may entail determining if you are an heir, and if he did not adopt you but has living blood relatives you would not be an heir and not entitled. Unless he left a will naming you as executor or you are a beneficiary and nobody is otherwise handling the estate.

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