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Let’s suppose a person believes they successfully divorced their previous spouse. Call us to learn more about how we can help.Īn Exception to the Rule: Putative Spouses Our attorneys can provide support through every step of the process, from interpreting the decedent’s will or trust to litigating on behalf of the surviving spouse if they need to bring or defend a claim. Keystone’s experienced lawyers can work with surviving spouses following the death of a decedent to ensure their spousal rights are upheld. If the couple never married but had a verbal agreement to pass on property to each other following one of their deaths, is the surviving partner entitled to that property, even though the agreement with the decedent had never been formalized through a legally valid document? Perhaps the decedent had a cohabitating partner when they died.Is the surviving spouse entitled to a share of the property? Perhaps community property funds had been used to improve or pay down a mortgage on the decedent’s separate property.Will the surviving spouse have access to the decedent’s assets during administration? Perhaps the surviving spouse had been financially dependent on the decedent.

Can they try to have the decedent’s marriage invalidated?

Perhaps beneficiaries are challenging the decedent’s marriage to the surviving spouse.

Does the surviving spouse have any right to inherit or entitlement to any of the community property?

Perhaps a couple was in the process of getting divorced when a spouse died.

Is the surviving spouse entitled to an inheritance?

Perhaps the surviving spouse is not mentioned in a decedent’s will or trust because the decedent created it before getting married.

How can the surviving spouse assert their spousal right to half of the couple’s shared property?

Perhaps the decedent is trying to dispose of more than 50% of the community property through their will or trust.