A Lawyer Answers the Question, “What Happens When Someone Dies Without a Will?”

Dear Lawyer Mark: I have a question about inheriting stuff when someone dies. I have a friend that has no family, and I mean like, literally, nobody. He’s never been married, and he’s an only child. He said that his mom and dad were only children, and his grandparents and great- grandparents was, too. When he was alive, his dad told him he researched the family history, and it was only childs all the way back to the Civil War. His parents died a few years ago, and he has no relatives now. We always joke about it (I told him he can’t move to West Virginia because he doesn’t have any cousins to marry), but when I told him I had a will done to leave stuff to my step-kids when I die, he said he never did one. That got me thinking, what would happen to his stuff?

Read the story… | Source: Ironton Tribune | Date posted: 3/16/2020