Dear Len & Rosie,
I divorced my first husband fourteen years ago. I have one child from this marriage, my daughter, who is now sixteen years old. Eight years ago, I married a second time. My second husband has been the primary earner during our marriage. Most of what we own was paid for by him, not me. If I were to die before him, what claim would my daughter have against assets my husband and I have accumulated?
Terri
Dear Len & Rosie,
My recently deceased brother had a daughter thirty years ago. He and his wife divorced within her first year of her life. Apparently, my brother's daughter was adopted by her mother's second husband after she remarried. Would this daughter be legally entitled to any part of my brother's estate or his trust? My brother had a living trust and didn't want to leave anything to her, but the trust didn't specifically name her and exclude her from an inheritance. Instead, the trust says, "I have purposefully omitted any other relatives from any and all distributions." Is this a problem?
Nancy