My partner passed away, but we weren't married
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Dear Karen,
I shared a life with my partner for a decade. His parents gifted him acres of farmland, which he farmed until his recent passing. Our two children, aged two and five, are now left without their father and myself without my partner, on which I was financially dependent.
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