[katiesue]

WB - I'm so glad you found the journal.

As for all the other stuff if there's no will I'm pretty sure (I'm going through the courts now on all this) that it has to be divided between all heirs. The only things that don't are things that had specific people listed as beneficiaries, like insurances, bank accounts, investment accounts. Meaning if your two brothers are the only ones listed on life insurance then they're the only ones who get it. If she had no beneficiary listed or anyone else as a co-owner on her bank account that would have to be split amongst all of you, after of course all the estate billls have been paid.

Now your brothers are welcome to split anything they get amongst the rest of you as at that point it's their money. But the insurance or bank will only pay the beneficiaries.