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Proving DNA So Three Children Collect
Sam died in 1965 and his brother Ben went to court and proved to the court's satisfaction that he was the only living relative. He inherited a nice chunk of money. Ten years later, there was an even larger amount of money left when Ben died. The last name was unusual, so we began to make phone calls on the off chance that we could find a relative to inherit. Our first call shocked us all. The lady indicated that Sam was her father and was also the father of her three siblings. They had not had any contact with him since they were very young. They had been raised by their loving mother who never talked about Sam. It was very difficult to find paperwork to prove the case after so many years had passed. We ended up exhuming Sam's body and several of his bones were taken to a special DNA lab. The DNA was checked against his three surviving chidren and they were a match! Paternity was proven without a doubt and Sam's children were able to inherit and feel quite differently about their father.

Unknown Half Sisters Inherit All
Lucy died several years ago from a debilitating stroke while in her early 60s. She was raised in an orphanage where records indicated that both parents were deceased. She was an angry child and was placed with several different foster families who soon returned her to the orphanage. The last family taught her to overcome her anger and she eventually became a high-ranking Army career nurse, at one time assigned to President Eisenhower. Lucy never married or had children as her fiancee was killed in World War II. After much research, we found 11 cousins on the maternal side of Lucy's family but had a very hard time finding Lucy's paternal line. They had no idea what happened to Lucy's mother. Records indicated that Lucy was born in Wyoming. She was actually born in Colorado. Using the many resources available to us, we eventually found Lucy's father who had died some years earlier from a stroke-at age 61. He had married Lucy's mother in 1920 and began divorce proceedings a month later with a final divorce recorded in 1924. He had returned to the area of his birth and had married again (before the first divorce was final) and had two more children. His second wife was deceased and Lucy's half-sisters inherited the entire estate-over $34,000 net each--from a sister they never knew existed, produced by a father they never suspected had been married before.

Just One Heir Left
We called 72 year old Bill at 9:00 PM Texas time on a Friday night to ask if his parents were the ones we had on file. He indicated they were. We'd spent a lot of time on this search and were afraid this was going to be one case where no heir would be left. We gave Bill the happy news that we had found money for him-more than $80,000. Bill told us later that he had been extremely depressed that night, had been involved in a car accident a few months earlier and had also fallen and messed up a hip replacement from the year before. He keeps in touch and called just the other night to say that since our first phone call to him, he seems to have acquired the Midas touch. He recently settled on the car accident for a lot more money than he expected and his hip is doing well. That might have something to do with his twice weekly water aerobic classes with a bunch of little old ladies!