How can I find my uncle?

I have an uncle who died in 1999..i want to find out if he had a will? How do i find out if he had one? ?

• my mother and her two siblings inherited property as a undivided estate. my mother's brother was married to his first wife and had three girls with her.then he re-married several years later to a woman who had two boys of her own with a previous marriage.they moved on to the said property together. In 1991, my uncle signed a paper selling his said portion to the second wife for $10.00 at 33.3% interest.In 1992, she divorced him. When they divorced in 1992, they remained living together until 1999 when my uncle passed away from a brain tumor.Then his second wife remained living on the property, within the last 9 years since my uncle's death, his second wife had contracted sucrose's of the liver, and had been very ill.she had wrote a will out giving the share of property to her two boys and only two of my uncle's daughter's. She died in September, in august she had changed the will, and no one knows what it say's. Does this give her legal right to will the property to anyone she chooses, without my mother and aunts consent? and can i protest it? If she willed the property to her two boys that are not legal descendants of the family?

• Answer:

  First, get a lawyer, with or without a will. This should have been taken care of long ago. Your mother and her two siblings each owned 1/3. Your Uncle sold his 1/3 to the 2nd wife. Now, depending on state law, he might still legally own a community property share, unless during the divorce he mentioned the land and it all went to her. If this is true and he did have a will, then that person would own the 1/2 of the 1/3. She now owns the 1/2 of the 1/3 and whoever his closest relative is, would own the other 1/2. The 2nd wife can will it to anyone she chooses, even the man in the moon. She doesn't need permission to do this. What needs to happen now is that all three parties agree on which 1/3 is theirs and be done with it, if it turns out to be cut and dry. So you see how complicated this can be if it's a community property state, and there was a divorce and there might be a will. I'd get a copy of the divorce decree and his will, from the county where they occurred.