My question involves estate proceedings in the state of: Utah
I am a same sex married black man, just so happen to be married to a white-Italian man. While there is more to what I am posting, to get to my question I will attempt to type what I think is prevalent to subject. My husband passed away last year in November. (Note: I say husband now because I was legally married to him after he passed away. My husband and I lived together for 29 years. Utah doesn't have a common law in it's state. I had to go through legal proceedings to make this happen. I want to preference this by stating that my husband had already left me beneficiary of everything with the exception of one thing, which is not what I am posting about. The reason I am typing this is because it help make sense of my post in the end). As I was going through legal proceedings with my husband's brother/family, which was totally unexpected because I never had a problem with any of them in 29 years. I even was considered as a son by their father and mother, I had requested that my lawyer get copies of all documents that pertain to beneficiary matters. During this process my attorney was trying to make a settlement with my husbands family so that they wouldn't object to my marriage and legal representation of my husband. Despite my adamant demands that my lawyer make providing the documentation as a part of the settlement he didn't. It appeared at times that he was working for my husbands family. I will take account for this portion. I didn't stick with my instinct. I was so emotionally drained with everything, specifically my attorney stating that it will cost me more and I don't want to have to face a trial, listening to what my husbands family may claim, as well as jeopardizing my chances of being married to my husband. My attorney was well aware of what was important to me, which was being married. My attorney went to extremes to tell me that my husbands brother attorney/brother wouldn't accept the terms. What is questioned here is that a change of beneficiary form which filled out while my husband was in the hospital, two weeks before he passed away. This change of form from what I know now was not attached to any type of policy. (There aren't any type of life insurance applications for this change of beneficiary form, but 70000 was distributed out to his brother, which I just found out a week ago. The form allegedly was completed and signed by my husband two weeks before he passed away. If anyone compared and contrast the writing on this form and any of my husbands previous documentations there is a noticeable difference. (I have to note this, he's a identical twin). When I received the copy of the change of beneficiary form I questioned it. I called and asked the benefits coordinator, the person who sent me the copy, to please provide me with who was all involved with the signing of the form and when it took place, she couldn't. She stated that she was instructed by my husbands employer to send a blank form to them and that is what she did. She stated that she had no idea who and what was involved. She stated that this was the original form for beneficiary and there wasn't any other application work that went with it. (Note: I sent the same email that I sent to the benefits coordinator to my husbands employer and their lawyer. No one responded to my questions with the exception of the benefits coordinator. This was the type of treatment I had been receiving since my husband was in the hospital. The HR head whom resides at my husbands place of employment is more so like a friend to my husbands identical twin brother. She's refused to provide me with any information, as well questioning my authority of my husbands medical decisions while he was hospitalized. I provided every court documentation that they request in efforts to get documentation from them, but they continue to refuse to provide the information or make-up excuses why they haven't responded.) In the interim of all of this, the family tried to have me committed to a mental ward while my husband was in the hospital, as a means to keep me from him and change directive of his medical decisions. Please remember this post is a very poor attempt at explaining what this post focus is about. I have been dealing with this for over a year, just come to find out that it appears, like I suspected that something illegal had happen with my husband's pension. Thanks
I am a same sex married black man, just so happen to be married to a white-Italian man. While there is more to what I am posting, to get to my question I will attempt to type what I think is prevalent to subject. My husband passed away last year in November. (Note: I say husband now because I was legally married to him after he passed away. My husband and I lived together for 29 years. Utah doesn't have a common law in it's state. I had to go through legal proceedings to make this happen. I want to preference this by stating that my husband had already left me beneficiary of everything with the exception of one thing, which is not what I am posting about. The reason I am typing this is because it help make sense of my post in the end). As I was going through legal proceedings with my husband's brother/family, which was totally unexpected because I never had a problem with any of them in 29 years. I even was considered as a son by their father and mother, I had requested that my lawyer get copies of all documents that pertain to beneficiary matters. During this process my attorney was trying to make a settlement with my husbands family so that they wouldn't object to my marriage and legal representation of my husband. Despite my adamant demands that my lawyer make providing the documentation as a part of the settlement he didn't. It appeared at times that he was working for my husbands family. I will take account for this portion. I didn't stick with my instinct. I was so emotionally drained with everything, specifically my attorney stating that it will cost me more and I don't want to have to face a trial, listening to what my husbands family may claim, as well as jeopardizing my chances of being married to my husband. My attorney was well aware of what was important to me, which was being married. My attorney went to extremes to tell me that my husbands brother attorney/brother wouldn't accept the terms. What is questioned here is that a change of beneficiary form which filled out while my husband was in the hospital, two weeks before he passed away. This change of form from what I know now was not attached to any type of policy. (There aren't any type of life insurance applications for this change of beneficiary form, but 70000 was distributed out to his brother, which I just found out a week ago. The form allegedly was completed and signed by my husband two weeks before he passed away. If anyone compared and contrast the writing on this form and any of my husbands previous documentations there is a noticeable difference. (I have to note this, he's a identical twin). When I received the copy of the change of beneficiary form I questioned it. I called and asked the benefits coordinator, the person who sent me the copy, to please provide me with who was all involved with the signing of the form and when it took place, she couldn't. She stated that she was instructed by my husbands employer to send a blank form to them and that is what she did. She stated that she had no idea who and what was involved. She stated that this was the original form for beneficiary and there wasn't any other application work that went with it. (Note: I sent the same email that I sent to the benefits coordinator to my husbands employer and their lawyer. No one responded to my questions with the exception of the benefits coordinator. This was the type of treatment I had been receiving since my husband was in the hospital. The HR head whom resides at my husbands place of employment is more so like a friend to my husbands identical twin brother. She's refused to provide me with any information, as well questioning my authority of my husbands medical decisions while he was hospitalized. I provided every court documentation that they request in efforts to get documentation from them, but they continue to refuse to provide the information or make-up excuses why they haven't responded.) In the interim of all of this, the family tried to have me committed to a mental ward while my husband was in the hospital, as a means to keep me from him and change directive of his medical decisions. Please remember this post is a very poor attempt at explaining what this post focus is about. I have been dealing with this for over a year, just come to find out that it appears, like I suspected that something illegal had happen with my husband's pension. Thanks
Heirs and Beneficiaries: Change of Beneficiary Form
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