My grandmother recently passed leaving her estate to her three adult children, equal share per stirpes. One beneficiary of her estate is my father who is also executor of her estate.. After speaking with my father last night he confided that his own Will left his ENTIRE estate to my now deceased grandmother. Not sure why? He expressed the need to see an attorney to have his own Will changed to reflect me as beneficiary. I obviously agreed and asked him to write out his wishes and possibly have it witnessed in the interim until he can see an attorney personally. I am his sole heir. What happens to his estate if he were to pass away before having his Will changed? Would I be the beneficiary of his Will or would my grandmother's other two living adult children in The State of Georgia?
No one can tell you exactly what would happen to your father's estate if he dies with the Will you describe still in effect without seeing the Will, because a lot depends on what, if anything, the Will says happens if his mother does not survive him. If the Will provides for an alternative beneficiary or beneficiaries, then that's what will likely happen.
If the Will really doesn't state what should happen to your father's estate if his mother, the primary beneficiary, does not survive him, then he may be deemed to have died without a valid Will in place, and then his estate would go to his hers, not to his siblilngs.
You're right: your father needs to get his estate planning updated as soon as possible, to ensure that what happens at his death is what he WANTS to have happen. Your are wrong to tell him to write out his wishes and have them notarized as a stopgap measure: that would not have any legal effect. In the meantime, he needs to have the Will reviewed to see what it provides in case his mother does not survive him. If it provides for a distribution that he does not want to have happen, if you are really likely to be his only heir, and if he really wants you to receive all of his remaining estate at his death, then he may actually be better off revoking the existing Will until he can get the new one in place. However, if the existing Will actually makes an alternative provision that he's happy with, he can likely leave it in effect until he's gotten the new one prepared.
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