Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Ohio

If a step mother passes without a will, and there are stepchildren involved and one natural child, are the stepchildren entitled to anything since the estate was initially built with the step children natural father? My fathers will when he passed, was created and forged by our step mother and witnessed by her child and daughter in law. The fake will at that time, read that everything was to go to our step mother. She also hid assets before inventory was taken, and then later, had three auctions and disposed of some of the things that were our fathers. When we contested our fathers will to be fake,the attorney we were working with, said it would cost thousands of dollars to call a handwriting analysis to court to verify that it was not my fathers signature although our attorney could clearly see this will was forged. So we had to drop our case due to lack of funds. Now that she has passed, we would like to see if we are entitled to anything.

Asked on 9/26/10, 12:28 pm

Elizabeth Schmitz Elizabeth S. Schmitz Attorney at Law

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Unfortunately if your step mother died without a will her probate assets would pass to her child.

Answered on 10/01/10, 1:29 pm

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