- Jurisdiction
- New Jersey
Hi
My brother passed away. Our parents are already deceased and he has no wife/children - he also has no will.
should be fairly simple to go through probate since Im only next of kin, however, a few years ago someone contacted us on facebook and said she was our half sister. She has no proof of this - no birth certificate etc as she was raised by her grandparents with their last name. I accepted her story since my father was long deceased and she is the daughter of his highschool girlfriend....
However she has no relationship w my brother other than one or two meetings in person after the age of 30. She didn't even come to his funeral...
I am reading that if she is a sibling she is entitled to half his estate which I know he obviously would not have wanted. My brother and I spent our entire lives together and were the only family we thought we had left until she messaged us... is she truly entitled to half his life savings?
thank you.
My brother passed away. Our parents are already deceased and he has no wife/children - he also has no will.
should be fairly simple to go through probate since Im only next of kin, however, a few years ago someone contacted us on facebook and said she was our half sister. She has no proof of this - no birth certificate etc as she was raised by her grandparents with their last name. I accepted her story since my father was long deceased and she is the daughter of his highschool girlfriend....
However she has no relationship w my brother other than one or two meetings in person after the age of 30. She didn't even come to his funeral...
I am reading that if she is a sibling she is entitled to half his estate which I know he obviously would not have wanted. My brother and I spent our entire lives together and were the only family we thought we had left until she messaged us... is she truly entitled to half his life savings?
thank you.