My dad died and I'm looking for my inheritance it's been several years 3 to 5 years in the making a private investigator got a hold of me so there's got to be a record of what was left the state have a restraining order on me for life and unfortunately I had a drug problem at the time taking 12 xzanny bars trying to join my father. I'm looking for my part of the inheritance. My dad's name is John coons. Brenda brown probably handled his estate. but there is no way that my dad would have loved me out of that and had his private investigator come find me to get my signature come on. There has to be a way to receive it or a record of what was left to me. I wasn't even given pictures or my dad's tools or anything so I didn't even get an option of going to the funeral either and I was out of jail and out of prison at the time so there should be no reason why I wasn't contacted incompetence on their part is there something I can do a countersuit or something perhaps if they did take my mon
When an estate is presented for probate, with or without a Will, it becomes a public record. Contact the probate court clerk in the county where you father died to see whether he left you anything in his Will or, if he did not have a Will, what proportion of the estate you are entitled to -- after all debts are paid. There is generally much less than people expect.
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