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You might have missed the part where the widow and the children couldn't agree on who gets what at any point in the last 10 years. They sued each other and sued

• FireBeyond 9y ago
  Yeah, my (effective) mother in law had this issue with her father and his (second) wife. He died without a legal will (what he did write was hand written, holes so large you could drive a truck through, and un-witnessed). Though the estate was modest (maybe $400K in home, vehicles, stocks) and could easily have been divided pretty equitably with the second wife (who was pretty recently married to him), the two of them's inability to get along, and always think that the other was plotting against them... lead to long drown out probate court challenges, and in the end they walked away with less than $100K between them, burning the rest in the process.