Mother passed away - her only child got nothing

by Guest » Wed Oct 14, 2015 03:15 am
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My step-son's (now my adopted son) mother committed suicide, he was 12 when she died, now almost 14. His mother's sister denied several times verbally and via email that there wasn't any money in her estate or any life insurance after she died. My son was granted all of the estate via his mom's will. We have recently learned there was about $15-$20k in the estate and actually a $400,000 life insurance policy where we were "told" , no proof, that my son's mom's sister (his aunt) was the sole beneficiary of the life insurance policy. So basically the aunt had cashed in any money from the estate to pay for funeral costs as well as the life insurance policy and gave not one red cent to her nephew and lied to us the entire time!!! The aunts excuse recently, was that his father makes good money (not the case) and the child gets SS money so that is why my son did not get any money from the life insurance. My son's mother was required by law in our state after her first divorce to carry and $100k policy for her son in case anything happened to her and her son was to be the beneficiary. She didn't carry such a plan ever. She changed her $400k life insurance beneficiary to her sisters name 3 months before she died, her second divorce was finalaized a few weeks before she died and she was diagnosed to be bi-polar. We are angry that my son did not get any money at all and we were lied to. We feel like we can't let my son spend time with them anymore as they don't have our son's best interest in mind. How could a mother leave her sister as a beneficiary and not her own child? She could have put it in his name until he was 18 or something. What do we do? Do we have any ground to get any money? We are so upset and angry. Thank you for your thoughts input and advice in advance.

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Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 04:50 am Post Subject:

You may have legal recourse against a party that wrongfully obtained life insurance proceeds. You will need an attorney to evaluate the merits of your case.

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