Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in New York

I lived with my father and he was diagnosed with lung cancer from asbestos. I started a business with him and helped build it and helped save his home as he went through a divorce. My fathers personality began to change and he became angry, I think it was from the lack of oxygen. He recruited a woman who has ill intentions to take the business, her and her husband. She ran around harrassing everyone causing them to leave. She brainwashed my father daily against me, she stalked and harassed me and my daughter. Stoled computers off of my account and had them delivered to the very house I live at, tried to steal my identity, the list is endless. I have evidence. My brother stood by and did nothing because he wanted to inherit everything. I moved, I couldnt live there. The past few years my brother took care of him and kept me at a distance, if I asked about my father he wouldnt answer. Upon my fathers passing, Jan 9, 2013, he told me nothing, I saw it in the paper. I knew he was in the hospital but this woman stood guard over him and was afraid to go. I was denied seeing my father in his last days. Dad passed and left him everything. He never showed me the will. Now I get a letter from an attorney representing the estate. Apparently my father had a lawsuit for asbestos and had a settlement. Apparently this settlement wasnt in the will that was created under manipulation of a sick man.


Asked on 6/08/13, 2:40 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
David Slater David P. Slater, Esq.

As a next of kin you are entitled to a share of the settlement that is distributed without the estate. You would need more information about the case and how the settlement was finalized.

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Answered on 6/08/13, 3:59 pm


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