I'm from a real estate family.
head of the estate is blood, ran over the will & trust with a fine tooth comb (lawyer). by the time I'm done in court the only people getting anything are the blood sucking vampiric lawyers, & I'll be left with $10 & a stick of gum.
just so long as I don't get anything the bastards are happy, my share wasn't even worth one fourth of the hole goddamn bullshit.
been living this garbage my entire life, unless someone gives you authority to begin with, don't expect shit.
Same thing happened in my mother's side of the family. They all turned into wolves after the Grandmother was in a bad car accident and swooped in to claim money and family treasures. I even remember what some of them were. A Gold and bloodstone inlay snuff box from the Czars. My Grandfathers authentic Colt Peacemaker, a Revere silver spoon set, and some paintings of the southwest that were recovered from a shithead of an uncle and then donated to the Smithsonian. We also believe that he took the other things as well.
My mom left to go take care of her, nurse her back to health, because Grandma, didn't trust any "foreigners" (her words) in her house. This
depsite the fact that there was a sister living right next door in one of the properties. I shit you not, a couple of hundred feet away.
But once the relatives realized she was going to live, they looted some of the antiques and all show up annually with their hands out. Since then a corporation was founded and someone put in charge. The Grandmother got snookered by "church groups", aka Jerry Farwell to name one.
My mom, didn't even get a thank you. I've written off almost all of that side of the family. Save an aunt and uncle (by marriage), and 1 cousin.
Amazingly she lived and is now 100. Wow, did I just air some family laundry? Fuck them. I'm not getting anything when she dies.