{"id":442540,"date":"2026-02-01T09:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T09:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/442540\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T09:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T09:33:14","slug":"your-questions-answered-my-late-father-abandoned-me-when-i-was-three-can-i-challenge-his-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/442540\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Questions Answered: \u2018My late father abandoned me when I was three. Can I challenge his will?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nPlus, my dad left the house to me, and nothing to his partner of 25 years\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Your first port of call is the online probate register. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0a7cf022-96c1-49f7-aad8-2710cf522340.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Your first port of call is the online probate register. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Q My biological father died six months ago. I hadn\u2019t seen him since I was three years old \u2013 30 years ago \u2013 as he walked out on my mother and we never saw him again. I\u2019d heard he moved to Australia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">My mother said he never paid child maintenance, and as she was a single mother, she and I always struggled financially. He returned to Ireland about five years ago to live on a family farm he inherited from his father, according to one of his sisters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plus, my dad left the house to me, and nothing to his partner of 25 years Your first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,208346,208345,2700,147,530,35566],"class_list":{"0":"post-442540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-financial-advice-investments","10":"tag-financial-advice-tax","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance","14":"tag-service-journalism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}