Can an ex-wife and family contest Life ins and house?

by yvette » Sat Jul 23, 2011 10:48 am
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Joined: 23 Jul 2011

Hi, I live in NYS,

My fiancé committed suicide and his family out of town family beliefs it’s my entire fault because they feel I stressed him out. However, my fiancé had a drinking problem and was depressed and committed suicide on the day his brother died in which he never got over his brother’s death.

I tried getting him some help, and we when to counseling a year to date of his death, because he always grieved for his brother every year around the same time his brother died.

I met my fiancé in the summer of 2007 in which was married and had filed for divorce, however funding fell short and delayed the divorce which went into effect in January 2010.

My fiancé bought a house in February 2010, in which he added my name to the title of the house in August of 2010, we lived together previous before moving into the new home for a year. We completed the adding me to the title by an attorney in which say I have survivors rights.


My fiancé also added me to his job policies; putting me as his beneficiary and removing the ex-wife from everything. The ex-wife and my fiancé were legally married for 9 years.


The family and the ex-wife wants to contest and feels that since he just changed the policy in 2010, that it can be contested. And that any policies changes that are under 2 years can be contested.

They want my house and the life insurance money, my fiancé left me with 13 teen month old baby and a house fill out bills.

Can this happen? We were in engaged; I paid for all of his funeral service and had no help from the family.

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