Unfortunately, sometimes it happens that an elderly and beloved parent literally forgets about a son or daughter due to senility or dementia brought on by advanced age, illness or approaching death.  Another thing that sometimes happens is when one's mother or father remarries late in life and dies leaving everything to the new spouse.  When both of these things take place in the same family at the same time, children may be wrongfully wholly or partially disinherited.  

If your mother or father passed on after having remarried, leaving you nothing, you may have valuable legal rights if the will, trust, or transfer to your step parent took place at a time that your mother or father lacked testamentary capacity, or if the step parent applied undue influence in order to have you disinherited.   While this may seem hard to prove, you have the legal right to obtain your parent's medical records to determine their mental capacity and even certain legal records created at the time of the will, trust or transfer in order to ascertain exactly what took place and why.  Obviously, this is a situation in which having the assistance and advice of an experienced will and trust contest lawyer is necessary.

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