If I’m a foster child and my foster mother died, what rights do I have?
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If I’m a foster child and my foster mother died, what rights do I have?
Asked on July 13, 2014 under Estate Planning, Pennsylvania
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 9 years ago | Contributor
Unfortunately, you do not have any rights to her estate or property, unless and only to the extent that she willed anything to you (that is, that she had a valid will and left you something in it). Othewise, if there is a will but you are not included in it, her estate will go to whomever she left it to; and if there is no will, it goes by the rules of "intestsate succession" and those rules do not leave anything to foster children (or step children), only to biological or adopted children.
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