Posted: Jan 24, 08 11:02am

I really need to know if it right for my two daughter not get what is rightfully theirs. My husband past away 10/98 when his kidneys failed and 6 months later my mother in law died of cancer. My daughter's were 10 and 8 at the time and it was very hard when we lost my dear husband/father and this very sweet loving lady mother in law/ grandma. My father in law and my husband brother were the only ones left in the immediate family. When my husband and my mother in law died (she was like a mother to me) it felted like some one cut my right arm and leg off. I didn't feel whole for a very long time My daughters were so close to their father and grandmother and it was so hard for them to adjust to loosing them. As years want by the grandfather or uncle never tried to stay in touch with their grandchildren/nieces or help in anyway as I was a single mother trying to make ends meet. My oldest of the two tried very hard to stay in touch with her grandfather and uncle. Visiting their grandfather once at his house....and I was accused of try to send the girls to get money from him which was not true. They wanted to see their grandfather and I just didn't want to go in so I wait out side for them. Then when he sold the big house he had at signal hill and bought a condo they wanted to visited him again and this time their grandfather was nice to them, he told them that when he died that his condo would be theirs. After that they didn't have any contact with them for a while and basically they didn't want anything to do with the kids guess they were to busy. For their grandfather 75th birthday at the Queen Mary we were invited to be made fools out of by their drunken uncle which told them that they were not getting any of his father money and that they were nothing but bitches..and my daughter left crying...that was five years ago which made them 14 and 16.....so they left that side of their family alone, untill their half sister from my husband first marriage contacted them and here they go again trying to fix the relationship with their grandfather and uncle which kinda worked for a minute cause their half sister was very persistent to make them a family again. When their grandfather's 80s birthday came, they were invited again so they want. Will to shorten this long story...My father in law died two weeks ago and the three girl my step daughter and my two girls want to the funeral....Their uncle said there was no Will and everything was his and he handed his three nieces, three envelopes with 500 dollars each. Do you think that's right that my husband kids should not receive their father part of the inheritance since my husband is not here to claim it... My father in law owned a fisher tool company which fished big tools out of oil wells which makes millions. I am thinking of getting a family lawyer to get my kids what is rightfully their. Am I wrong to do this...Their uncle never had kids he has a girlfriend that has one daughter and If I let this go this strangers will get what belongs to my kids. Can you give me some inside about this situation...Any advise would be so helpful.. concerned.