willgonewild
New Member
This takes place in Illinois.
A father with many children of whom were
all were at least 18 dies 20 years ago with a testamentary trust.
He also was married twice.
His will had all of the children from both marriages in there, stirpes and all.
The surviving spouse gets to play with the estate and live in the house until she dies,and then stuff is distributed to the people in the trust.
The surviving spouse also became the rep for the estate because the designated
executor declined.
Now the Surviving spouse died and her children are the only one's inheriting
because she died intestate but for some
reason trust assets seem part of her estate and are being probated to her lineal descendants only.
What should I do?
Also her children were all arguing over everything and couldn't
agree on a representative so the court appointed one and they ( the court appointed) state that they only represent her (the surviving spouse's) estate and not her deceased husbands to whom created the testamentary trust, which she has been representing and has now become part of her probate matter.
I don't have thousands of dollars for a lawyer, taking the case on a contingency for some reason is out to the two lawyers I've talked to, although that was while the surviving spouse was alive, because i suspected mismanagement,
and pro bono seems to be for illegal immigrants and people wrongly jailed,I wonder how many people just give up, it's sad because there is enough money there to
pay a lawyer if I could get my hands on it,like 5 million that I'm aware of but there could be assets I'm not aware of also the step mother would go to the ends of the earth to be sure that the first family wouldn't inherit.Should I write the Judge? some people think that shouldn't be done but I have nothing to lose thus far Thanks for reading.
A father with many children of whom were
all were at least 18 dies 20 years ago with a testamentary trust.
He also was married twice.
His will had all of the children from both marriages in there, stirpes and all.
The surviving spouse gets to play with the estate and live in the house until she dies,and then stuff is distributed to the people in the trust.
The surviving spouse also became the rep for the estate because the designated
executor declined.
Now the Surviving spouse died and her children are the only one's inheriting
because she died intestate but for some
reason trust assets seem part of her estate and are being probated to her lineal descendants only.
What should I do?
Also her children were all arguing over everything and couldn't
agree on a representative so the court appointed one and they ( the court appointed) state that they only represent her (the surviving spouse's) estate and not her deceased husbands to whom created the testamentary trust, which she has been representing and has now become part of her probate matter.
I don't have thousands of dollars for a lawyer, taking the case on a contingency for some reason is out to the two lawyers I've talked to, although that was while the surviving spouse was alive, because i suspected mismanagement,
and pro bono seems to be for illegal immigrants and people wrongly jailed,I wonder how many people just give up, it's sad because there is enough money there to
pay a lawyer if I could get my hands on it,like 5 million that I'm aware of but there could be assets I'm not aware of also the step mother would go to the ends of the earth to be sure that the first family wouldn't inherit.Should I write the Judge? some people think that shouldn't be done but I have nothing to lose thus far Thanks for reading.
