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Personal anecdote: When my grandfather (let's call him Alfred) unexpectedly died in a car crash at a relatively young age, the probate court split his house seven ways between his second wife Beatrice, the four children (Charles, Dorothy, Egbert, and my mother Francine) that he had with Beatrice, and the two children (Gerald and Henrietta) that he had with his first wife Irene. Francine told me that Gerald and Henrietta signed their shares over to Beatrice (who was left destitute due to Alfred's failure to buy life insurance). But, on a whim, I paid for a title search, and this alleged signing-over was never recorded at the clerk's office! Francine insists that the signed papers must be somewhere in Beatrice's possession. But, as things stand, the signed papers are missing, so Gerald and Henrietta seem perfectly entitled to claim shares in the house.
But that's just one anecdote.
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