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    Heirs blocked from receiving bequests: items stolen or destroyed.

    Is it a crime to refuse heirs access to their bequest? Is it a crime to keep or destroy items, rather than give them to the heirs? Is it a crime to kill pets rather than offer them to the owner’s family? I am back again to ask advice for a new but related situation to my post from 12/2019...
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    How to retrieve inherited items from the widow’s vacated home?

    Is there a way for my sisters and I to retrieve my late father’s personal items from his widow’s house, now that she has been moved to a memory care facility? Can a sheriff gain entry for my sisters and myself? We don’t have house keys or the alarm code. Dad left the items to us in his will...
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    Home insurance: Purchase in name of estate or eventual inheritor?

    In covering my father's home after his death, are we supposed to apply for new coverage under the name of the estate, or the inheritor? We have letters of testamentary but the estate is not closed. My sister, the inheritor, lived in the home with my father before he passed and she continues to...
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    Widow disposing of heirs’ bequests

    My father recently passed, and his wife has dementia. His estate had no monetary value but his personal property has tremendous sentimental value. He specified one big-ticket item for her (as well as insurance), and he specified that the rest of his tangible personal property, wherever located...
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    License suspension as part of YO conviction

    In 2015, my daughter's license was temporarily suspended as part of a youthful offender conviction. For months, I drove her everywhere. She never got behind the wheel. When she later applied for a new license to use as i.d. (her purse had been stolen), she asked if any time was left on her...
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