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Originally Posted by NinerDoug
Lots of people die intestate. When that happens, the state essentially provides a will for you. If you were on good terms with your family, it probably tracks pretty closely what you would have put in a will.
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Yeah, that didn't happen for my mother-in-law. She's been sorting out her father's estate since October of last year and it's not slowing down anytime soon. The only thing he left to his kids was a trust that contained his farm and house and some random monetary assets, and the stipulation he put in his trust was that the farm and house couldn't be sold for at least 10 years. All of his kids are in their mid-to-late 60's and he put that in there for a double "**** you" to his kids. The rest of the stuff he left out of the trust he did not put in a will, so the kids are all fighting over it and the state doesn't want anything to do with it.
I guess that follows under your qualifier of whether or not they were on "good terms" but it wasn't like they were estranged or anything. He was just an abusive asshole and wanted to stick it to them one last time from beyond the grave.