Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in New York
If two brothers own a family heirloom, in this case, a piano, and one of the brothers dies, who owns it, the living brother or the dead brothers wife?
Asked on 11/28/10, 7:05 pm
1 Answer from Attorneys
Paula McGill
Attorney at Law
It all depends. Who owned the family heirloom before the brothers? How did the family member pass the heirloom onto the brothers? Look at the will or trust? If the will or trust simply passed ownership on to brothers without any indication of ownership after death, the dead brother's estate becomes the owner of his interest, and it gets passed in accordance with the will.
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