-PJ
Had that happen to a friend. Family had a wine business. Daughter produced amazing world wide sales, dad dies, mom sells vineyard, buys boyfriend a Ferrari and when the daughter ask mom what’s going on is told to go get a job.
As absurd as the whole thing sounded, it still had to get straightened out in court.
A lawyer friend tells me that even a flimsy excuse for a will is still a will, and therefore has to be contested in court.
That being the case, I’m surprised there aren’t a lot of claimed “heirs” to the Trump and Buffett estates.
Or why some hot buxom blonde wouldn’t claim a nearly 100 year old guy was her “lover“, and left her everything.
No, wait…
That was what happened with me and my siblings. No big deal; the property was my father’s, to leave to whomever he wished. We all ended up doing OK.
Or, if there’s a step parent he/she leaves most everything to her/his kid. Best to get a lawyer. Don’t assume the other spouse will follow thru with your wishes, and will be fair to
your family.
I don’t think Larry is their father.
Happened in my family
Oh well life goes on
Too bad Naomi didn’t set up a family trust.
Larry is set, so, there’s that.
That scenario is hard, even worse when divorce and remarriage create it. Decades later the family wounds can be reopened if one of the surviving spouses favor their natural children over the step ones, throwing into question whether the second family was ever “real”.
“...wife remarries and leaves everything to new husband...”
You can stop right there. She was not the mom of the year.