My cheating husband has written me out of his will

If your husband left you nothing in his will, you may still have legal rights to a portion of his estate, writes solicitor Karen Walsh.

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Dear Karen,

I have access to part of my farmlands over a private laneway. My father, my grandfather and I have been using it for driving the cows from the milking parlour to part of the lands for donkeys’ years.

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