My rights if my live-in partner died?

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My rights if my live-in partner died?

Last month, my live-in boyfriend of 4 years passed away without a Will. He had told his daughter 2 months earlier that if he died to come get his stuff ASAP. They were here the next day just going through everything in my house. I had no idea why they were so quickly anyway. Did they just have the right to do that? They did ask if they could come get a few things and I said yes, however they brought 2 trucks and a car and got stuff out of my the attic and garage. Did they have the right to do that?

Asked on February 2, 2019 under Estate Planning, West Virginia

Answers:

M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney

Answered 5 years ago | Contributor

You had no legal relationship with your partner since you wern't married. Accordingly, you have no automatic right of inheritance. In order to receive a all or a partion of his assets, he would have had to have a Will that named you the benefciairy. As is stands, his children are entitled to his estate. 

SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney

Answered 5 years ago | Contributor

You have no rights to anything your live-in partner owned unless he willed those things or items or money to you. Being a live-in partner conveys no ownership or inheritance rights (unlike, say, being married). Anything he owned would become, if there as no will, his children's, so they could take these things.


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