What steps do we need to take now?
My husband has been searching for his biological father for the last 6 years and had no luck until recently. I had done some research online and found a death index card on his father saying he passed away in 1996. He had no family he had been adopted too. My husbands mother said he had written my husband in his will, what should we do to find out if all his funeral expences were taken care of and how can we find out if there even was a will and what steps to take next?
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Not much you can do. I would start by searching the local paper where he lived around the date of his death. Usually there is a death notice and it lists a funeral home.
Contact the funeral home, and check to see if they have any information.
If he died without any assets, then do nothing. If he died with debts, the debts died with him.
If you believe he did have assets, you may want to find an attorney in the area to do some research for you, but I don't know after all this time if there is anything they can do.
Mother in law should tell who told her of the will naming her son and should have the attorney information too. So ask her how dated her information is and contact an attorney only after doing a little investigating on your own. If your husband was adopted he would have no heir rights but he would still have heir rights without being named in a will.
http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/deathre...
The above site might be helpful. Best of luck.
Check out the public records and call the recorder's office for the county the man died in, a lot of jurisdictions make people record wills once they've been executed. It's worth a shot.
If your husband's mother has info about this will, maybe she knows who the probate attorney was, too, and the attorney would definitely have all of that information.
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