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So you are a great-niece to Thelma and your father is her nephew. And Thelma decided to give a great-niece a $400,000 house and give her own children, who are her closest blood relatives, just $100,000 each.

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OP is not just a great-niece, she is Thelma's god-daughter. To some people, that means a lot. My mother has given many valuable things to her god daughter (even paid some college tuition when a scholarship fell through.) God parents are supposed to stand in for the parents if the parents fail or can't help their own children.[/quote]

Legally, "goddaughter" has no real bearing on this. The law only looks at blood relatives if a person dies without a will and it looks to give the estate to the closest blood relatives. If a will is determined to be no good for whatever reason, the court will divide the estate as though there were no will.

So Larla would be far down the line since Thelma left living children. Even if Mary and Roy hadn't existed, Thelma's sister is alive and also her sister's son, who is Larla's father. Both of Larla's parents are living, so there was no need for Thelma to step in in their place.

The facts about how the will came to be written this way would make a difference here. 
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If there was no will, then Thelma's assets are split equally between Mary and Roy. Larla gets nothing. However, since there is will which specifies Larla will inherit the house, then Larla will inherit the house. It doesn't matter why Thelma chose to leave the house to Larla and not her children. It only matters that she chose to do so while in sound mind. Thelma had the will drawn up 5 years before she died. She had 5 years to change it and she didn't. Thelma's intent is clear. [/quote]

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