Inheritance Question: In-law's estate, husband deceased, his children alive.?

Your husband's mother died after your husband did.

In most states, her spouse gets all of her estate.

When your step-father-in-law died, his living relatives would inherit their shares of his estate.

I know of no state that passes an inheritance to an already deceased person (your dead husband) and then retroactively distributes that to his heirs.

Basically, since your husband pre-deceased his mother, your husband (and his heirs) have no claim on her estate.

But check with a lawyer. Remember the property is a person's until their death. A dead person cannot inherit.

If the grandparents are both dead then legally everything might be property of the grand-children of those people. However if the grand kids are step grand kids and not blood then the property might not go to the grand kids at all. I think you should immediately consult a lawyer in that state. If the lawyer says the property legally goes to your kids, the grand kids of these deceased people, then I would sue the sister (great aunt) of the grand kids for the money back.

This question is best directed to an attorney practicing probate law (the type of law governing wills and estates), rather than counting on random answers on Yahoo! Answers.