Probate

A few questions:1) My husband and I never got divorced, he moved in with a woman, my husband had a legal will awarding me all his assets upon his death. He has died, and the girlfriend refuses to release the property. The total property is valued at less than $50,000. How can I get my property?2) His girlfriend has refered to herself as his wife - what are the legal ramificaitions of this?They were together according to her from 1998 until 2010 when he died.3) My husband was dieing of prostate cancer, and his girlfriend isolated him on her ranch, emotionally abused, physically disregarded his well being, he was filthy, infected bedsores, malnourished and not getting access to his medical treatment or his medication. He called and talked to me but did not ever expose his living conditions because of his pride. When he finally was able to get a ride - his girlfriend gave his pickup to her daughter leaving him without transportation to his medical treatment and his health declined so much that he eventually couldn't drive himself to his radiation treatments. When his health became very poor the girlfriend had someone that works on her ranch take him to the hospital. There they had a social worker take over his care and admit him into in patient care, and later into hospice. This is when we all became aware of what his condition was. His girlfriend had keep him away from all of us until this time. If we would have had access to him his health would have never become so poor. My question is what are/is any and all of the legal actions I can take against this girlfriend? Thank you.

I have a relative who died in Texas with no children and no husband. A caretaker did not notify the family she died. I have filed a property claim for her home with the County, but am unsure as to what the next step would be to obtain a deed on the property. Message is for information on how to obtain control of a property owned by a relative with no living next of kin except for a cousin.

My father passed in 2010, and he did a quitclam deed and gave to me it is signed witness and notized what I need to. know is. Being that it not filed do it still mean.anything or would I have rights to sale the house to pay. Back the reverse. Mortgage be fore the house goes in to foreclosure.there is no. Will and I don't. Want no trouble so I need some legal advice. Please

MY brother is listed as the joint owner on checking, saving accounts and cds with my elderly widowed mother. Her will states that the money is to be divided equally amongst the 3 children. The banks states that they do not honor the will in case of my mother's death and that the money will become the property of the joint owner. My question is, what happens to the money should my brother die before he distributes the money. He has a spouse and I am concerned that the money would go to his estate or to her. He has also added his spouse as one of the beneficiaries on a large CD. How do I protect my interest in my portion of the estate?

My brother died and in his will listed his heirs as two sisters and a brother. On a 401k and two other retirement accounts (408 and Simple IRA) he named just one sister (the executrix) as the benefactor. She wants the money to be split evenly with the other siblings as we think it was just an oversight and our brother would have wanted an equal distribution. But because it is just in her name, does she have to cash out the accounts and get hit with federal taxes and then gift to the other siblings or is there a better way the shares can be divided into retirement accounts in each siblings names and not withdrawl anything?