Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Wisconsin

Duties & Responsibilities of an Executor
I am the executor of my mother's will. Her husband is the sole beneficiary. He is her second husband and was married 9 yrs. My mother was an artist and she has paintings in his possession that she painted before they even met and married. He wants to take these paintings and the paintings she painted after they were married. The paintings after the marriage are not in question, he can have them. Do we as the children have any right to the paintings before she married him? My mother did leave a list, but some of the paintings are not mentioned.

Thank you.

Asked on 3/11/02, 4:01 pm

Thomas Schober Schober Schober & Mitchell, S.C.

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Re: Duties & Responsibilities of an Executor

You indicate that your mother's will left everything

to her husband. If that is the case, he gets all

the paintings, even those before she married him.

We have marital property in Wisconsin, which determines

what property one's estate consists of, but in this

case it is irrelevant, since she says it all goes to him.

Answered on 3/12/02, 11:46 am

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