Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in New Jersey

I'm not sure who's who in your question but this is how it works:

Anyone can leave anything to whomever they want in the will. Except in circumstances when certain family have the right to inherit even when the will does not leave anything to them, the will controls. If there is no will and no blood or legal relationship between people, they do not inherit, the estate goes according to state intestacy laws, which list degrees of relationships in an order of priority and percentages or amounts that each of those relatives are entitled to.

This response is not legal advice, since I do not have all of the information that would be required, and I do not have a representation agreement with you.

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It depends upon language in the document. Some Wills say you must survive to inherit and if you didn't someone else can inherit, and some provide that the beneficiary's heirs take if the beneficiary predeceses the Will maker and only if there are no heirs does someone else take. I would have to see the actual language to properly answer the question.