My name is benjamin bolt my mother passed away last year she had life insurance policy and home that has been sold I have not received anything

Mr. Bolt: Please accept my condolences on the loss of your mother. You should begin by contacting the probate court for the county where your mother had her principal residence. You can simply call the court or go there in person and ask them whether anything has been filed for her estate. If so, you can ask for a copy of everything in the file and you will be able to see what is in it. There is a charge for the copies, but it should be minimal. You can also look in the deed records for the county where your mother's house was located and find out whether she owned the house in her own name or whether she owned it jointly with another person. If it was owned jointly, the other person may have received ownership of the house automatically (if it was owned as joint tenants with rights of survivorship) or your mother's interest may have become part of  her estate (if the house was owned by her and the other owner as tenants in common). The life insurance is very unlikely to be part of the public record, however, and so there may not really be any way to find out what happened with regard to those policies. If your mother had any assets that were owned by her solely in her name, and that did not have a beneficiary designation attached to them (or that named her estate as the beneficiary), then someone would have needed to open an estate (either by offering her Will for probate, if she had one or seeking appointment of an administrator, if she didn't have a Will) or file for year's support (if she has a surviving spouse or minor child). You should have received notice if any of that happened. If you were not properly notified, you may have some rights. However, depending on what your mother owned and how she owned it, it may be that she had no probate estate and that everything passed outside of probate (including the life insurance and the house). In that case, you would only receive notice if you became entitled to receive something. There's no way for anyone to know for sure. Most attorneys who work with estate and probate matters do not take contingency work (payment only after you receive assets). I don't. In part, that's because there is no such thing as a set entitlement to inherit. It is entirely possible that your mother left you nothing. Try to do as much legwork as possible by contacting the probate court and looking in the deed record (Superior Court keeps those, not probate court), and then try calling an attorney who may be able to write a letter to the person who seems most likely to know what happened. That's likely the best way to keep your costs down. Best wishes to you.