Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Virginia

Likely depends upon how this will is worded with respect

to your status as a possible beneficiary. After all, rather than disowning

you outright, your father could have left you the princely sum of $10.00 or

something else that might be clearly less than what you had expected.

Under Virginia law, if you were excluded from the will it will be presumed that your father intended to exclude you. A son or daughter has no statutory rights to a parent's estate. If he died without a will, you would inherit as one of the heirs, but he did not die without a will, unless his will is declared invalid for any reason.