My aunt 86 who has Alzheimer's/Dementia is bed bound, voided a will back in 1998 (found) and my mother states that a new one was prepared making me the heir to home, contents and car. This will has not been found and the attorney that prepared it passed away years ago. What can be done?
Most professionals - like doctors and attorney's- when they retire are required to place a public notice in the paper about this. You have 30/60 days to contact them to either get your documents or let them know to whom to transfer to otherwise they default to a closed file or to another firm. You may want to go a google search on the old deceased attorney to see to what happened. My mom has outlived attorney's either by their death or they retired - we got 2 letters regarding this each time with a letter that needed a signature of acknowledgement of transferring of files. Current one I've never met or ever spoken to but has her file.