My mom past in December of 23. She was bedridden for last 2 1/2 years and required total care 24 7. I quit my job and moved in with her so she could be at home out of love. She told me she didn't have a will and needed one. In March of 23 she made out a will which had split her estate down the middle for my sister and I. It was taken by my sister from the house. My sister hired her brother in law as a probate attorney and supposedly had a will date 2010 that left everything to her and she self appoint herself as executor. I don't know what she did with the will written in March of 23. She told me she was going to split the estate down the middle regardless of what it stated. She sold my mothers house I where I lived and cared for my mother with our any help except from hospice.I was unemployed and suddenly homeless. I wasn't able to get paid for her care because my sister took $7000 out of my mom's account to pay for her funeral and never did. And when mom died she took the last $8000 to pay for it again. My sister had no interest or time for my mom what so ever until she past away. Suddenly she was free and available to make all arrangements and I wasn't needed. Probate ended the end of June and my sister had not contacted me or given me a dime. She send all the grand children $1000 in a card signed love Grama. She says that that was my mom's wishes. I never saw anything on that either. I miss my mom dearly and I trusted my sister to keep her word and do what my mom wanted in the will from March 2023 however she ghosted me. Is there anything I can do to get justice and my share of the estate?
Who was the Executor of the older Will? Was it your sister? Then maybe she was following what was outlined in it.
We really can help you because we are only getting your side of the story and we're not lawyers. You need a lawyer.
Any interested party – not just children of the deceased – can contest a will in California by moving immediately after the death to object to the executor's petition to probate the will. If probate has occurred, it is possible to contest a will within 120 days of the hearing date.