all left to step mom then she died 13 mo later dont want her kids getting all that my dad gathered
2007-11-06 22:57:03 · 4 answers · asked by Rayband 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Insurance
You can't find life insurance policies online. Well, if you were the executor of the estate (not likely, it was probably your stepmom) you can search bank records, and pay for an application search. If you're NOT an executor of his estate, well, just understand once he passes his stuff to his wife, and she outlives him by 6 months, it's HERS. It's not HIS any more. So her will will distribute everything according to HER wishes. You can't come along and say, well, that was my dad's, take it back from her! Because it doesn't work that way.
Likely, she's already filed insurance claims for any policies that were out there, and been paid. But you can ask the executor of HER estate, if they find any paperwork regarding your dad, if you could have it.
2007-11-07 01:30:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You probably can't find anything online. The life insurance policies would have had a beneficiary listed. They will pay to the beneficiary. If the beneficiary was your step-mom and they hadn't paid and now she's dead, I don't know what they would do. Seem like the life insurance payout would go into her estate. Your only hope is that there was a will. Good Luck!
2007-11-07 00:22:56 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Their is no place online where info like this is kept.
If they had an attorney/solicitor then they might know.
Have to tell you, I think you are screwed. Once your dad died (sorry btw) the policies became the property of his beneficiary, which sounds like it would be your step mom. Unless your stepmom named YOU as beneficiary of her estate (thus cutting out her own children), you would have NO legal rights to any of her estate. Her children are the only ones entitled to the money.
Sorry
2007-11-07 00:57:46 · answer #3 · answered by Gem 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If your father willed his possessions and life insurance proceeds to your step mother, she is/was entitled to it. Since she has died, any unsettled proceeds will go to HER estate, and then probably to her children, who are probably her heirs.
If your dad intended to give to you 'all that he gathered', he should have prepared a last will and testament indicating such desires.
Sorry.
2007-11-07 02:52:20 · answer #4 · answered by acermill 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋